[haiku-development] Re: Proposal and questions: Support of BFS
- From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:13:59 -0400 EDT
Stephan AÃmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote on Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:04:25 +0200:
> It looks like all solutions would have potential for failure to work. [...]
So it sounds like using the xattr API and a fixed up Tar should work
fine for Haiku and might work on other systems in the future. Most of
the time people will be using the archives on Haiku systems anyway, I
wouldn't worry too much about Linux now. With xattr storage on Linux,
the data is still there, so a future utility program that understands
endianness and data types might be used to convert the attributes to
corresponding Linux attributes.
But for now, having Haiku utilities for an archive format which stores
attributes and can handle arbitrarily big files would be great!
- Alex
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