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[Bug-tar] Support SCHILY.* options, please.
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Tim Kientzle |
Subject: |
[Bug-tar] Support SCHILY.* options, please. |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:52:57 -0000 |
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Joerg Schilling's "star" archiver was one of the
very first to implement the POSIX.1-2001 extended
pax format, and some of his innovations would
be nice to see in GNU tar as well:
* SCHILY.dev, SCHILY.ino - Store the device/inode number for files,
similar to how cpio works.
* SCHILY.fflags - store file flags on systems (including BSD and
Linux) that support it
* SCHILY.acl - Store POSIX.1e ACLs.
My own libarchive/bsdtar supports these for pax
format already. I adopted them directly from
Joerg's design because he did a good job with
them. As a result, star and bsdtar are now
quite interoperable.
I would like to see the various open-source
'tar' implementations cooperate on furthering the
standard. Sharing the best ideas from the different
projects--GNU tar's excellent sparse file support; star's
ACL, fflags, and dev/ino approach; libarchive's handling
of POSIX.1e extended attributes--makes life better
for everyone.
Good luck! It's nice to see such progress from
GNU tar after languishing for so many years.
Sincerely,
Tim Kientzle
address@hidden
Author of libarchive/bsdtar.
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