On Thu 12 Sep 02 16:38, Niall O Broin wrote:
> This is true but as a friend pointed out to me recently when I was having
> some tape reading problems - if you get some bit errors reading a tar file
> from a tape, most likely asll you will lose is the affected file. If OTOH
> you get bit errors reading a gzipped tar file, you most likely will not be
> able to read anything after the bit errors. Just something to be aware of.

So... when, and how much work is it to get bzip2 used. Apparently it doesn't 
suffer from this problem? 

If I were to replace (by hook or by crook) the COMPRESS_PATH to bzip2 would 
that work?

And what is the opinion of the Right Way to do this?

Regards,

Brian
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