There is a major problem with pax under AIX : if you are not root
and you want to restore a tree structure, you NEED to be owner of all
intermediate directories, otherwise pax will end with a non-zero
retrun code EVEN IF all data files have been correctly restored.

This prevents us to use pax in developments systems (with many users
sharing directory trees.

Stephane

Michael E. Thomadakis a écrit:
>
> I think the replacement is the pax utility. tar has known limitations in path
> length names.
>
> -MT
>
> On Fri, 7 May 2004, John Leslie wrote:
>
> JL > Date: 7 May 2004 00:53:38 -0700
> JL > From: John Leslie <johnleslie@madasafish.com>
> JL > Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
> JL > Subject: tar : name too long
> JL >
> JL > What is the best workaround to the problem with tar not liking long filenames?
> JL >
> JL > JL
> JL >