The supported Tar formats are the following:
Any format that is not listed above is considered an unsupported
format. For example, the POSIX.1-2001 format is explicity not supported.
The CAS Server processes Tar files as follows:
For supported formats,
each entry in the Tar file is extracted and written as a record.
For POSIX.1-2001 Tars, the
entries are not extracted and a message is written to the log indicating that
the format is not supported.
For corrupted Tar entries:
If the first entry is
corrupted, the entire Tar will not be extracted. Instead, it will be treated as
any other non-archive file.
If any later entry is
corrupted, the occurrence of the bad entry is logged. All prior entries are
extracted and written as records to the output file.
