On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 'pax' and 'tar' are actually the same binary so they have the same > limitation from the file formats that are supported, as well as any purely > internal limitations. "pax -rw" actually has file format limitations by > design, so it doesn't automagically free you from those limitations. > > By Looking a tar man page, I do not find comments regarding "length" constraints :(. On pax, it stated that with the default archive format "ustar", filenames must be 100 char max and path names must be 256 char max. But It's not clear which archive format the command Tar is using. Is it using the "old tar" format or the new "ustar" format as described in the pax man pages ? Amazing for me to see that both are the same binary t420:~$ ls -ali /bin/tar 32778 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 433488 Oct 4 05:13 /bin/tar t420:~$ ls -ali /bin/pax 32778 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 433488 Oct 4 05:13 /bin/pax
