Hi Stefan Thanks for your kind reply on both list. I have been testing the Ant Untar task and it works reasonably well. In my test I used a tgz that is 13 GB and 2 entries are around 6 GB.
Thanks again Lin On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2011-01-07, Lin Sun wrote: > >> I 'd like to use untar task in ant, looks very cool and mature! :) >> In reading through the user doc, I don't see much restrictions >> limited. I'd like to know if it supports any of the following - > >> 1) unlimited tar size and tar entry size >> 2) support the full POSIX tar standard or more modern GNU extension of >> said standard > > No on both counts. Ant's tar code has been the base for Commons > Compress and has the same limitations. > >> 3) able to preserve file permissions after untar > > No. Part of the reason is Java's limited support for permissions. This > may change once Ant can use NIO2. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
