iarticle-mort-the-tar-archive-format.mw - tgtimes - The Gopher Times	Err	bitreich.org	70
hgit clone git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes	URL:git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes	bitreich.org	70
1Log	/scm/tgtimes/log.gph	bitreich.org	70
1Files	/scm/tgtimes/files.gph	bitreich.org	70
1Refs	/scm/tgtimes/refs.gph	bitreich.org	70
1Tags	/scm/tgtimes/tag	bitreich.org	70
1README	/scm/tgtimes/file/README.md.gph	bitreich.org	70
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iarticle-mort-the-tar-archive-format.mw (1254B)	Err	bitreich.org	70
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i     1 .SH tgtimes	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     2 GNU tar(1) extraction is quadratic	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     3 .2C 16v	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     4 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     5 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     6 When implementing something from the ground, it gets possible to build-up a simple home-baked file format or protocol looking perfect without any cruft and legacy.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     7 Easy to implement, fast to adopt, supporting everything you need from it, and not much more...	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     8 Likely an alternative to a huge elephant in the room: the current standard in place used by everyone, huge, with many extensions with many use-cases...	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     9 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    10 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    11 Why bother, then, with implementing the huge and difficult file format or protocol?	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    12 Maybe because it would be used by many software, and writing data in this slightly more bloated format would help making it compatible with all the software that already support it.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    13 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    14 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    15 In this compromise, a limit can be drawn, across which the big and bloated format or protocol is dropped in favor of a simpler, more reasonable, less time-wasting alternative, eventually home-brewed.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    16 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    17 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    18 .\fImort\fR is exploring this limit in the context of the GNU tar(1) archive format, in a detailed analysis covering the choices made and practical examples.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    19 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    20 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    21 The result is a new tar implementation written for the single special-case of a 1.1 TiB file!	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    22 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    23 .FS	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    24 https://mort.coffee/home/tar/	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    25 .FE	Err	bitreich.org	70
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