Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:08:25 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: 20 years without semantic innovation is enough |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > > Each read-in block is quoted by a header saying "this next N bytes is > > taken literally", followed by the unquoted data for N bytes. > > It's called 'tar' and we are back in square 0 ;-)
It's not tar: tar stores the size of the whole file in the header. That has problems if the file's changed while it's being read.
But maybe block-by-block is equivalent to an albod in a tar file... ;-)
-- Jamie
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