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Tar is an descendant from file formats that were written to tapes. Recovery was to the same system & space was not cheap. there is also an error in the maximal
by stop50 3y ago
Tar is an descendant from file formats that were written to tapes. Recovery was to the same system & space was not cheap.
there is also an error in the maximal size: its 8 Gigabyte not 64. The last byte must be an \0. This is fixed in modern gnu and bsd tar.
- vitiral 3y agoThanks for the correction. If space was so important then why waste 1KiB/file? Why waste namelen-100 bytes per file? Why put space into owner/group id?