Reading in everything to allow for random access should be something I have to turn on explicitly, using a new parameter/API. IOW, existing apps should not have to pay the price for a feature they don't want. Think of an app that looks at large tar...
Gary On Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 21:51 Peter Lee <peter...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Robin has pushed a PR in github in July that implemented the random access > of tar : > https://github.com/apache/commons-compress/pull/113 > It's achieved by reading the tar once and have the start position of each > tar entry stored. Tar is not designed to be random accessed so this may be > a time consuming way. > IMO this is not a must feature, but it's a good idea that may be useful > when we only want some specific entries in giant tars. This is a big change > in tar so I want to hear your voices. WDYT? > cheers, > Lee >
