X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to :references:message-id; q=dns; s=default; b=rb2WbTkh5b4jWTAKPh/l vxKqsHObz29qONYnNPUOgqDCVFS+enOP5SbeuF6gBDUQ2/1JhBywSw80kyS3JdiT TmJFa3e4LQFEnRmW9++GX8pQV5fyy1vCWCkU1GmXE0lIRCVlHoep6Rn3EE0/Y4U1 U6D3YvO6q+f5eKXEfbKJHfo= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to :references:message-id; s=default; bh=bx7hHLoeMiE8uj6L81DZxAjKRn Q=; b=JJMRnfj7J1SaEIk4dG4mlypIwDI1C7IS/J4HGQXk3ZP1cB6gzIPMD4JcbB 4OJDsN8RiV0ZdNIZFFiCfIfhwQB2v45wvt2yrisaddFcUZWASCngr/857EE7Lz6Y Qvnuyb621gcTl+NwsZzd0vFJe+ZUJ6Scjw7rwIoWwffnlBXpw= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1465, H*i:sk:874me4x, H*f:sk:874me4x, ah! X-HELO: lb2-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:56:35 +0100 From: Houder To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why? In-Reply-To: <874me4xd6u.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <20160123181053 DOT GF3268 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20160123192515 DOT GG3268 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <1c1720fce81779d6bb5f2bd29c06bb3f AT xs4all DOT nl> <874me4xd6u DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> Message-ID: <81652803e279e0a094f8b8d7490be136@xs4all.nl> X-Sender: houder AT xs4all DOT nl (gy705VPWu8NLYPlQdoCrow==) User-Agent: XS4ALL Webmail X-IsSubscribed: yes On 2016-01-23 21:18, Achim Gratz wrote: > Houder writes: >> Did the same test on FC19. Same result. > > The patch most likely responsible is only applied to FC21/22/23 best I > can tell. As I realized, that Corinna is using "the latest and the greatest" of the Fedora distribution, I go myself tar-1.27.1-8.fc21.i686.rpm and extracted the tar program from it. Again using FC19, but now the tar program that I extracted: @@ pwd /home/henri/x @@ ls -l total 7172 -rwxr-xr-x 1 henri henri 6952352 Jan 23 20:28 cygwin-inst-20160121.tar.xz drwxr-xr-x 3 henri henri 4096 Jan 21 18:42 etc -rwxr-xr-x 1 henri henri 377916 Jan 23 22:38 tar drwxr-xr-x 7 henri henri 4096 Jan 21 18:42 usr @@ ./tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.27.1 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. @@ find etc usr | ./tar -T - --no-recursion -cJf foo.tar.xz @@ find etc usr | ./tar --no-recursion -T - -cJf foo2.tar.xz @@ ./tar tvJf foo.tar.xz > foo1 @@ ./tar tvJf foo2.tar.xz > foo2 @@ wc -l foo1 foo2 1429 foo1 <==== Oh, ah! 381 foo2 1810 total @@ As noted by Achim, this modification of tar took place in July 2015. That tells it all, does it not, Corinna? Thanks, Achim. Regards, Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple