tarindexer
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python module for indexing tar files for fast access
First off I'd like to thank you for creating this nifty program. I've used it with many GNU tarballs in the past and it has worked fabulously. Today I was...
Hi, I tried to use your script to index the contents of a tar archive on a magnetic tape with the following command. `sudo ./tarindexer.py -i /dev/st0 tape.index` Which gives...
Hello! Thanks for useful idea! I tried to use your program on the big archive while using an UTF-8 locale and it crashed with the stack trace: Traceback (most recent...
Feature request: make tarindexer able to index a TAR file where the TAR data does not start at the first/zeroth byte of the file. Motivation: for a multi-part tarball like...
Feature request: make `$ cat 200GB.tar | tarindexer -i - indexfile.index` a thing or make it work no-problem. Motivation: (1) for a multi-part tarball like file.tar.aa, file.tar.ab, file.tar.ac, etc. where...
or document this limitation (and defer to [ratarmount](https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount#tar-compressions-supported-for-random-access)) ``` $ tarindexer -i test.tar test.tar.idx One dot stands for 1000 indexed files. 1.0% 512.0B/50.0kB ETA: 0s (estimate 0s) 93.0% 46.5kB/50.0kB ETA:...
