Re: tar, but not gnu tar

Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I had a bit of time to experiment with tar and star today
> and I am no longer sure what the real issue is. Perhaps
> some of you can clarify. Here's the test I ran:
>
> There are many a ways to get the same thing done, but I
> did it in a most intuitive way (to me). I had 3 windows
> to the same directory. In one window, I ran a simple
> shell program interactively and continuously:
> while true
> do
> touch big.inputfile
> done

I don't think 'touch' is enough for tar to see the file as changed (you
are only updating metadata). (tar did complain but the file contents
didn't so it is hard to say if that is a good test.) You should change
the file contents during the backup.

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