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Stefan Bodewig commented on COMPRESS-165:
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COMPRESS-16 contains patches that enable the star method of writing such
entries.
> Support writing entries > 8GiB in tar
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> Key: COMPRESS-165
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-165
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Archivers
> Affects Versions: 1.3
> Reporter: Stefan Bodewig
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> We already parse PAX headers and the star/GNU tar/BSD tar dialects used for
> big
> entries.
> Similar to the way we handle long file names there should be a user option to
> chose
> between "error", "star" and "posix" or "pax". "star" is Jörg Schilling's tar
> which was the
> first one to use the binary size representation later adopted by GNU and BSD
> tar as well.
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