David O'Brien wrote:
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:16:39AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
I'm looking forward to when we can remove both GNU cpio and
our current pax implementation from the tree,
I don't see a reason to remove pax from the tree. It is already
BSDL'ed and is faster than libarchive based archivers. Please
take this as a request to not remove pax.
The current pax does have a lot to recommend it.
Unfortunately, it is rather out-of-date. In particular,
it does not implement the POSIX-2001 'pax interchange format',
which is not at all trivial to implement. The 'pax'
format is also the basis of new features being developed
by a lot of folks, including the new GNU tar sparse
file format (which libarchive supports), and ACL support
from Joerg Schilling's star (which libarchive supports).
As for libarchive performance, I've done a lot of
work there in the last year or two; you might be
pleasantly surprised.
Cheers,
Tim
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