We've been having problems using SMBTAR to back up some of our PCs. It seems that the tar format used by SMBCLIENT only supports a 100 character path name. Some of the new Microsoft Software generates longer file names. This causes an error when you attempt to write these files out to the tar device. I have developed a patch that will cause SMBCLIENT to write these files in USTAR format (an extension of tar format). These USTAR files should be fairly portable, our sun systems seems to be able to read them with no problem. I guess I would like to know, would this patch (which is currently based on 1_9_16p11) be useful to the Samba community? If so, what should I do with it to get it included with the next release of Samba? The fix currently writes ONLY in USTAR format. Is there a need to write in either format? What does the run of the mill tar programs do?
Wayne Johnson <Wayne_Johnson@candle.com> writes:> I guess I would like to know, would this patch (which is currently based on > 1_9_16p11) be useful to the Samba community?I don't think so... Since release 1.9.18, Samba has produced tar files in the GNU tar format... -- Alexandre Oliva mailto:oliva@dcc.unicamp.br mailto:aoliva@acm.org http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil