Hello For backups, many people decide against the usual compressing method via "-j"/"-c" as one single tape/disk medium error makes the complete tar archive unusable.
To circumvent this drawback tar could use libz to zip the individual file chunks inside the tar archive so that in the case of a bit error on the medium only one file gets corrupted - which would be the case in the present implementation anyway. Of course this would be an incompatible change but when calling the result .tar.czip (chunkwise zipped) that should be ok, or? What do you think? bye, -christian- -- "Arp! Arp!" - the mating call of the lonely packet _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
