[BusyBox] tar and bazillions of "exclude" files

[David Douthitt]

I know this has come up before....

I've heard that tar in busybox has small limit on the number of files 
it can "exclude", which is why every LRP-based system uses ctar to 
compress files, because these systems rely on this feature.  They 
have a LOT of files to exclude (I seem to remember a count of 50+).

Is there any hope for a change to tar to support LOTS of exclude 
files?

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David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Linux, Unixware
ddouthitt at mennonite.minister.net