Helmut Waitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [zip the individual file chunks rather than the complete tape archive]
> >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?
>
> One shouldn't make gnu tar's behavior depend upon the name of the archive
> file. Please, don't let tar decide what to do with a given archive file
> by drawing conclusions out of the file name.
You cannot implement reliable per file compression.
You either need to compress the file 2 times in order to get the compressed
size before archiving and then it will fail if the file changes meanwhile
Or you compress to a /tmp file and then you have an unknown size limit for
compressed files.......
Jörg
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