[ale] CPIO!

[James CE Johnson]

Transam at cavu.com wrote:

>Unless you have a REAL good reason to use the stillborn cpio, use GNU tar!
>
I prefer tar for any disk-bound archive but if I'm headed to tape I 
still prefer afio.  A compressed tarball is unrecoverable if you get 
bitrot somewhere in the middle.  Because afio compresses each file 
individually you can recover from mid-stream failures.

Now if someone would fix tar such that 'tar xz' is something other than 
'tar xf - | gzip', that would be great.

>The only reason cpio was created was because the versions of tar at the
>time could not backup devices inodes (just storing the type and major/minor
>dev numbers) and could not take a list of files from standard input.
>
>It was rather easy for me to add these features to tar, hence SGI's
>enhanced tar.  These features now are, of course, in GNU tar.
>
>Bob Toxen
>transam at cavu.com                       [Bob's ALE Bulk email]
>bob at cavu.com
>



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