Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:42:59 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <webmaster@hentai.pp.ru> To: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEW TAR Message-ID: <20040720074259.GB19499@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <40FC9FC2.8050400@kientzle.com> References: <40F963D8.6010201@freebsd.org> <20040719060730.GA87697@nagual.pp.ru> <40FC9FC2.8050400@kientzle.com>
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 09:29:54PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Andrey Chernov wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:37:28AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > > >>* File format: bsdtar can read gtar files, including > >> long file names, long link names, and sparse files. > >> bsdtar can also read many other formats that gtar > >> does not support. > > > >Addition: > >bsdtar can't write sparse archives (Yet?). > > gtar has to be better at something! ;-) > > I have some ideas about sparse file handling, > but they're not gtar-compatible. (The gtar I think that goals are not in conflict. You can implement creating gtar-compatible sparse archives on -S --sparse option and your own effective solution on another unique option. -- Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/
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