Re: GNU tar

[Paul Eggert]

   From: "your name as you would like it to appear" <address@hidden>
   Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:41:57 -0500

   I just wanted to make a suggestion that tar be made a filesystem and merged
   with the kernel source.

Actually, tar has already been made a filesystem.  See the following
paper.  It includes source code (written in Perl).

P.R. Eggert and D.S. Parker
File Systems in User Space
Proc. Winter 1993 USENIX Conference (1993-01-25), 229-240
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~stott/ifs/