> On May 8, 2015, at 8:14 AM, Florian Wolff <florian.wo...@pinuts.de> wrote: > > On 08.05.2015 17:08, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: >> Hi Florian, >> >>> Did you ever consider "inventing" a new header format to allow storing >>> large (> 8 GB) files? >> >> No, I didn't. In my opinion, tar should be used for that. > > 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 <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799//utilities/pax.html> Pax interchange format is well-supported by GNU tar, star, bsdtar, and others. Cheers, Tim
