Joerg Schilling wrote: > James Carlson <james.d.carlson at Sun.COM> wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling writes: >>> James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Danek Duvall writes: >>>>> As a caution to anyone who uses 7z, it is not useful as a general >>>>> purpose archiver on unix systems, as it does not store user and >>>>> group permissions. This is thanks to its Windows heritage. >>>>> However, there is no issue with its usage for compression of >>>>> individual files. >>>> With Windows heritage, shouldn't this feature eventually support the >>>> PSARC 2007/315 interfaces used by the CIFS server? >>> star will do this soon..... it already allows to archive and restore the >>> *BSD >>> extended file flags. >> Can we _please_ stay on topic here? The topic is an architectural >> review of "7z." > > Please stay on topic.....you started this off-topic thread.
Jim's comment was completely on topic for ARC review of 7z. The project team said 7z has Windows heritage and Jim pointed out a Windows filesystem related ARC case. -- Darren J Moffat
