On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
P.S. Of course, the fact that the The Open Group
tried to convince the
world to stop using tar and cpio in favor to pax seems to be a strong
indication that they forgot the lesson of King Canute. :-)
Minor nit: King Canute never tried to hold back the waves. His subjects
were convinced that he could, so he demonstrated otherwise.
-- Dave