Re: (reiserfs) Re: 20 years without semantic innovation is enough

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:08:25 +0200

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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