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Re: Auto compress zstd does not compress


From: Michał Górny
Subject: Re: Auto compress zstd does not compress
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 08:57:09 +0200
User-agent: Evolution 3.44.4

On Sat, 2022-09-17 at 00:10 -0400, xaque@duck.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to use the -a / --auto-compress flag for tar.zstd archives and it 
> seems to work at first, but the file seems to just be uncompressed tar. As a 
> result, file-roller fails to open it. Using tar 1.34
> 
> As a side note, this seems to be the behavior anytime auto compress doesn't 
> detect the compression. Is this desired behavior, or would it make sense to 
> throw an error or send a warning to stderr?
> 

The suffix for zstd compressed archives is .tar.zst (without "d").

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny




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