Re: Auto compress zstd does not compress

[xaque]

Ah, my silly mistake

With that in mind, to my second point-- I don't know what the full implications would be, but if it makes sense, a failure or err message would have caught my mistake. Just a thought

Thanks for the response!

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From: Michał Górny <mgorny_at_gentoo.org_xaque@duck.com>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 11:57 PM
To: xaque@duck.com <xaque@duck.com>; bug-tar_at_gnu.org_xaque@duck.com <bug-tar_at_gnu.org_xaque@duck.com>
Subject: Re: Auto compress zstd does not compress

 

On Sat, 2022-09-17 at 00:10 -0400, xaque@duck.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use the -a / --auto-compress flag for tar.zstd archives and it seems to work at first, but the file seems to just be uncompressed tar. As a result, file-roller fails to open it. Using tar 1.34
>
> As a side note, this seems to be the behavior anytime auto compress doesn't detect the compression. Is this desired behavior, or would it make sense to throw an error or send a warning to stderr?
>

The suffix for zstd compressed archives is .tar.zst (without "d").

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Best regards,
Michał Górny