[BusyBox] tar and bazillions of "exclude" files

Glenn McGrath bug1 at optushome.com.au
Sat Dec 2 02:07:54 UTC 2000


David Douthitt wrote:
> 
> 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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