Salvo Tomaselli wrote: >> Or, it should get clever and not unpack everything. There are plenty of >> software that are able to read into archives without extracting from >> them. > You can't do it for a .tar.gz or a .tar.bz and they are the most common kind > of archive.
xz compression format supports dividing files into blocks that are seekable http://www.tukaani.org/xz/format.html tar format itself has limitations, here is some planning of new format http://duplicity.nongnu.org/new_format.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120527222518.GA19150@lisko
