[qalmakka]

Basically like GNU Tar/CPIO and BSD Tar/CPIO. I've largely standardised towards using the bsd variant everywhere (especially since now even Windows ships it and it handles lots of other archive formats using the `tar` command) but it's always a pain to install it everywhere

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Yeah, I'm leaning towards strongly preferring bsdtar since it's happy to work on e.g. zip files:) Does it have any real downsides?

[SoftTalker]

Limits on the length of path and file names in the archive.

Edit: I see that they switched from ustar to pax as the default format in OpenBSD 7.6, so I guess this isn't true any longer.