Michael Paoli (HE12025-08-09): > Length of a file can change while tar is backing it up, tar generally > handles this, > though it may complain/warn about it. > And to the compression formats, it's just a stream of data, > they know nothing about tar. So, the blocks of compressed data may > have part of one large file, or maybe thousands of files. The compression > formats generally don't know or care when it comes to tar archive or the like, > so there's not really much info they could provide to tar about what's within > ... for the most part all they really know is its data, and perhaps > also bits like > how long the block is compressed, and uncompressed, and perhaps some > hash of that data or the like.
I am pretty sure you need to read what Vincent and I wrote more carefully. > On Sat, Aug 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM Nicolas George <[email protected]> wrote: Also, to not top-post on this mailing-list, thank you very much. -- Nicolas George
