Request for Comments: libarchive, bsdtar

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <40059DFB.9000904 at 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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