[Lzip-bug] Tarlz 0.25 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of tarlz 0.25.

Tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of 
the tar archiver and the lzip compressor. Tarlz uses the compression library 
lzlib.

Tarlz creates tar archives using a simplified and safer variant of the POSIX 
pax format compressed in lzip format, keeping the alignment between tar 
members and lzip members. The resulting multimember tar.lz archive is 
backward compatible with standard tar tools like GNU tar, which treat it 
like any other tar.lz archive. Tarlz can append files to the end of such 
compressed archives.

Keeping the alignment between tar members and lzip members has two 
advantages. It adds an indexed lzip layer on top of the tar archive, making 
it possible to decode the archive safely in parallel. It also minimizes the 
amount of data lost in case of corruption. Compressing a tar archive with 
plzip may even double the amount of files lost for each lzip member damaged 
because it does not keep the members aligned.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/tarlz.html

An online manual for tarlz can be found at 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/tarlz_manual.html

The sources can be downloaded from
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/tarlz/

The sha256sum is:
7d0bbe9c3a137bb93a10be56988fcf7362e4dbc65490639edc4255b704105fce 
tarlz-0.25.tar.lz


Changes in version 0.25:

  * The new option '--ignore-metadata', which makes '-d, --diff' ignore 
differences in file permissions, owner and group IDs, and modification time, 
has been added.

  * '#include <sys/types.h>' for major, minor, and makedev on BSD systems.

  * File diagnostics of '-z' have been reformatted as 'PROGRAM: FILE: MESSAGE'.

  * The option '-o, --output' now creates missing intermediate directories 
when compressing to a file.

  * The variable MAKEINFO has been added to configure and Makefile.in.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to lzip-bug@nongnu.org


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, tarlz author and maintainer.

--
If you are using gzip, bzip2, or xz, please consider the long-term 
advantages of switching to lzip:
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html