Re: [Bug-cpio] New header format for large files?

[Florian Wolff]

Hi Sergey, hi Tim!


> > But tar has a very restrictive limit on the file name's length, which
> > is why I stumbled across cpio in the first place.
>
> Current tar formats have no restrictions on file name length or file length.
>
> In particular, the “pax interchange format” is a completely standard
> extension of the older ustar tar format:
>
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799//utilities/pax.html
>
> Pax interchange format is well-supported by GNU tar, star, bsdtar, and
> others.

Thank you for answering! So GNU tar should do the trick -- don't know 
why I didn't see that by myself.
cpio would still be nicer since its header format is so much simpler to 
write without using something linke libtar and unfortunately pax is not 
preinstalled on my debian/ubuntu, so installing additional software to 
start a disaster recovery whould be needed.

So I guess I'll have to go with (GNU) tar :)

Regards,
Florian.

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