[ale] star vs. gnutar

[Jerry Yu]

good point. 
Unfortunately, star is not on-par with GnuTar for serious backup/recovery, 
to my dismay.

On 5/22/05, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
> A while back, the question was asked "why star for baking up selinux
> instead of modifying gnutar to handle the selinux extensions in RedHat".
> 
> I think I figured out the answer.
> 
> GNUtar is not just a Linux tool. It runs on every *nix there is. Each
> flag for it works the same (there may be an exception of two) on every
> platform. Adding SELinux capability to this will break the cross
> platform nature of GNUtar.
> 
> Thus Star.
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