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Work-around tar.TypeGNUSparse #21

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vbatts opened this issue Oct 29, 2015 · 0 comments
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Work-around tar.TypeGNUSparse #21

vbatts opened this issue Oct 29, 2015 · 0 comments

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vbatts commented Oct 29, 2015

Perhaps the best work around here, will be to have an entry type, that is like Segment and File, but stashes the whole raw bytes of a sparse file entry. This could make the tar-data.json substantially larger, but could preserve the integrity of sparse files, rather than inflating them.

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