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Re: Tar filesystem for the GNU Hurd
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Joerg Schilling |
Subject: |
Re: Tar filesystem for the GNU Hurd |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Aug 2002 16:18:44 +0200 (MEST) |
>From: "Ludovic Courtès" <address@hidden>
>There was a post some time ago [1] about whether a tarfs implementation should
>be part of the GNU paxutils package. I have been working on a basic
>implementation (read-only so far) of a tar filesystem which works apparently
>quite well but is based on code from Midnight Commander (regarding the tar
>file parsing). Of course, this would be better if we were able to use code
>from paxutils. Has there been some progress regarding the implementation of a
>libpax?
Does your code implement the PAX archive format or rather GNU tar?
>So far, tarfs is able to read transparently gzipped and bzip2'd files using
>one of the Hurd libraries (libstore). Will there be such a facility in
>paxutils?
Did you test it for POSIX compliance?
Check at least:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/testscripts/ustar-all-quicktest.tar
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/testscripts/ustar-big-2g.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/testscripts/ustar-big-8g.tar.bz2
and read
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/testscripts/README.quicktest
Jörg
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