Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
