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From: | Joerg Schilling |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] wishlist: transparent compression on file- and not archive level |
Date: | Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:27:26 +0200 |
User-agent: | nail 11.2 8/15/04 |
Christian Hammers <address@hidden> wrote: > > You either need to compress the file 2 times in order to get the compressed > > size before archiving and then it will fail if the file changes meanwhile > > > > Or you compress to a /tmp file and then you have an unknown size limit for > > compressed files....... > > The approach I thought of was the second. Surely there would be a new size > limit but it could be documented and would most probably not discourage > most admins from using the new option. Especially when creating a backup > file one has to care for free disk space anyway. But you cannot even know before you did end with the compression whether the result will fit into /tmp. Jörg -- EMail:address@hidden (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin address@hidden (uni) address@hidden (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
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