[Bug-tar] compressed archives within tar files

2014-03-15 Thread e-letter
Readers, What is the risk of data corruption if a zip archive is added to a tarball? If there is in-sufficient space on the local disk that contains the zip archive, can the zip file be extracted and 'piped' to the tarball on the storage disk (accessible via USB connection to the local disk)?

Re: [Bug-tar] compressed archives within tar files

2014-03-15 Thread Pavel Raiskup
Hello, On Saturday, March 15, 2014 09:13:08 e-letter wrote: Readers, What is the risk of data corruption if a zip archive is added to a tarball? If there is in-sufficient space on the local disk that contains the zip archive, can the zip file be extracted and 'piped' to the tarball on the

Re: [Bug-tar] compressed archives within tar files

2014-03-15 Thread e-letter
On 15/03/2014, Pavel Raiskup prais...@redhat.com wrote: No IMO, you may not pipe the product of extraction (files, directories ..). I am not sure I understand your use case correctly. You basically want convert Zip-standard archive to tar/pax? I am not aware of any converter like this.

Re: [Bug-tar] compressed archives within tar files

2014-03-15 Thread Paul Eggert
e-letter wrote: In other words, the tarball contains an archive. Tarballs can contain any regular files, of any format. There are no restrictions.