"Robert B. Carleton" <[email protected]> writes: > Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> writes: [...] >> Those are similarly obsolete as ustar. libarchive-formats(5) >> on FreeBSD mentions limitations: >> "The SVR4 format uses eight-digit hexadecimal values for all >> header fields. This limits file size to 4GB, and also limits the >> mtime and other fields to 32 bits." > > This was very helpful. I hadn't found the cross reference to > libarchive-formats(5) yet. [...]
I added a comment to FreeBSD bug 173087 [pax(1) does not support the pax interchange format]. The last comment was in 2017. It was orignally filed in 2012. Hopefully it gets some action.
