From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: Change pax(1) default write format
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>, jca@wxcvbn.org, tech@openbsd.org, millert@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:34:14 +0100

On 2024/04/15 18:30, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
> > Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:22:25 -0600
> > 
> > I am absolutely unworried about this size increase.
> > We must do this.
> > 
> > But why this?  What is this for?
> > 
> > +#ifdef SMALL
> > +# define DEFLT 5       /* format when called as pax: ustar */
> 
> Well the pax on ramdisks only supports a limited number of formats to
> make the binary smaller...

It might be a good idea if that changed if we're switching default.
Sometimes people like to use a ramdisk to restore files.