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Re: tar file system
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
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Re: tar file system |
Date: |
21 Dec 2001 16:21:14 -0800 |
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Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu> writes:
> I disagree; libdiskfs should be used.
Quite right.
> Embracing the Unix philosophy, the implementation should be as lazy as
> possible, i.e. it should wait until the very last minute to actually
> fill in the data structures rather than doing all of the work on
> startup.
This is true, but tar may be tough. :)
Be careful about one thing: if the same file occurs more than once in
the archive, you must use the *last* occurrence, not the first, as the
contents of the file. That might require scanning through the whole
archive.
Re: tar file system, Jeroen Dekkers, 2001/12/21