James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> Don Cragun writes:
> > >If there are, then should we be deliberately incompatible?
> >
> > The star and the recent AT&T pax archivers encode sparse files using
> > ustar/pax format archives. The project team has not seen any other
> > attempt to encode sparse files using cpio format.
>
> That's the part I wanted to hear: that the project team had looked for
> other implementations and found none. I'm satisfied with that.
Other implementation use data_offset/data_size pairs for tar archive extension
since a long time. It makes sense to try to be as similar as possible.
J?rg
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