From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 46213 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2016 21:56:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 46201 invoked by uid 89); 23 Jan 2016 21:56:40 -0000 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 Received: from lb2-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net (HELO lb2-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net) (194.109.24.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 23 Jan 2016 21:56:38 +0000 Received: from webmail.xs4all.nl ([194.109.20.204]) by smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net with ESMTP id 9Zwb1s00F4QBLo201Zwb7v; Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:56:35 +0100 Received: from a83-162-234-136.adsl.xs4all.nl ([83.162.234.136]) by webmail.xs4all.nl with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:56:35 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 10:28:00 -0000 From: Houder To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why? In-Reply-To: <874me4xd6u.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <20160123181053.GF3268@calimero.vinschen.de> <20160123192515.GG3268@calimero.vinschen.de> <1c1720fce81779d6bb5f2bd29c06bb3f@xs4all.nl> <874me4xd6u.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Message-ID: <81652803e279e0a094f8b8d7490be136@xs4all.nl> X-Sender: houder@xs4all.nl (gy705VPWu8NLYPlQdoCrow==) User-Agent: XS4ALL Webmail X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00323.txt.bz2 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