Add support for unix dump files
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Key: COMPRESS-132
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-132
Project: Commons Compress
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Archivers
Reporter: Bear Giles
Priority: Minor
I'm submitting a series of patches to the ext2/3/4 dump utility and noticed
that the commons-compress library doesn't have an archiver for it. It's as old
as tar and fills a similar niche but the later has become much more widely
used. Dump includes support for sparse files, extended attributes, mac os
finder, SELinux labels (I think), and more. Incremental dumps can capture that
files have been deleted.
I should have initial support for a decoder this weekend. I can read the
directory entries and inode information (file permissions, etc.) but need a bit
more work on extracting the content as an InputStream.
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