Re: tar file system

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

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.