"Robert B. Carleton" <r...@rbcarleton.net> writes:

> Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> 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.

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