tar "memory fault"

[Henry Spencer]

Quite apart from the overhead of recursive tree traversal, don't forget
that tar format (not just the program, the *format*) limits pathnames to
100 characters.  The new extended version in P1003 has stretched this to
255 by some trickery; you probably want to look into that if you're doing
backups using tar.
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