metatar VS afs

Compare metatar vs afs and see what are their differences.

metatar

Manipulate tar file metadata, list tar files or convert tar to cpio. For some projects, this can replace fakeroot and cpio, when creating an initrd image that is compatible with the Linux kernel. Used in production in at least one company. (by xyproto)
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metatar afs
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31 290
- 2.8%
6.2 5.2
about 2 months ago 3 days ago
Go Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Apache License 2.0
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metatar

Posts with mentions or reviews of metatar. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-15.

afs

Posts with mentions or reviews of afs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing metatar and afs you can also consider the following projects:

common - Location for shared common files in github.com/containers repos.

go-exiftool - Golang wrapper for Exiftool : extract as much metadata as possible (EXIF, ...) from files (pictures, pdf, office documents, ...)

common - Developer tooling framework

parquet - A library for reading and writing parquet files.

vfs - Pluggable, extensible virtual file system for Go

concurrent-writer - Highly concurrent drop-in replacement for bufio.Writer

shred - This is a libary to mimic the functionallity of the linux shred command.

copy - Go copy directory recursively

go-decent-copy - copy files for humans

bigfile - Bigfile -- a file transfer system that supports http, rpc and ftp protocol https://bigfile.site

opc - Go implementation of the Open Packaging Conventions (OPC)

skywalker - A package to allow one to concurrently go through a filesystem with ease