JdeBP
7 months ago
It does make one wonder whether Illumos pax or pax from one of the other BSDs would have worked better; or whether it was the tool generating the test pax archive in the first place that was the problem.
Portability of Tar Features
40 pointsposted 7 months ago
by Bogdanp6 Comments
knome
7 months ago
I wrote a tar parser long ago while playing at parsing various formats and filesystems.
The only thing I really remember about the format is the thing stores sizes formatted as octal in ascii strings.
porker
7 months ago
(2018)
eesmith
7 months ago
We know it's out of date because "This is signalled by setting the MSB of the first octet, and provides for 95-bit integer size, i.e. 32768 YiB (it's so big that we lack a better prefix for it)." ;)
In 2022 ronna- became the recognized prefix for 10^27 and earlier this year robi- became the recognized prefix for 2^90. 32768 YiB is 32RiB.
Jupiter has a mass of 1.9 Rkg.
After that is quetta- for 10^30 and quebi- for 2^100.
The Sun has a mass of 2 Qkg.
bryanlarsen
7 months ago
Qkg? I hope that's not a thing and that you either mean 2Qg or 2000Qg?
eesmith
7 months ago
D'oh! Yes, you're absolutely without a doubt correct!
The Sun masses 2000Qg. We're going to need a new unit.