Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 3) Anyone else looking for sparse file support should be strongly > urged to use the existing pax (or star, if you prefer. I don't want > to get into a debate about Sun pax vs. star vs GNU tar. Its not this > case.)
I think that's a shame. The standard sysadmin archivers are tar and cpio. pax has never come close to being adopted, and given how long it's been around, I think I can safely say it never will. It would be good to see sparse support in cpio. At least, I hope it will do so in copy (-p) mode where this archive format discussion is irrelevant, and the fact it doesn't copy the original file faithfully is simply a bug. -- Andrew
