Hello
On 2006-07-17 Joerg Schilling wrote:
> 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.......
The approach I thought of was the second. Surely there would be a new size
limit but it could be documented and would most probably not discourage
most admins from using the new option. Especially when creating a backup
file one has to care for free disk space anyway.
bye,
-christian-
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