Re: Request for Comments: libarchive, bsdtar

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 01/14/04

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    To: Vladimir Dozen <vladimir-dozen@mail.ru>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:22:02 +0100

    In message <40059DFB.9000904@mail.ru>, Vladimir Dozen writes:
    >ehlo.
    >
    >> If you become a bored person requiring entertainment, it might be quite
    >> interesting to create a read-only tarfs for use as a root file system
    >> loaded in an md device.
    >
    > I'm just curious: is it possible to write a GEOM class to mount
    > a given tar as a FS in R/O mode (using libarchive, I mean)?

    That would be a filesystem, not a GEOM class.

    And yes it would be. Part of the trouble is directory searches
    where you need to build some kind of index in order to not have
    to run through sequentially all the time. 

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