tar filesystem for the GNU Hurd

"Ludovic Court?s" <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:58:59 +0200

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Hi,

There was a post some time ago [1] about whether a tarfs implementation should
be part of the GNU paxutils package. I have been working on a basic
read-only implementation of a tar filesystem which works apparently quite well
but is based on code from Midnight Commander (regarding the tar file parsing).
Of course, this would be better if we were able to use code from paxutils. Has
there been some progress regarding the implementation of a libpax?

So far, our tarfs is able to read transparently gzipped and bzip2'd files
using one of the Hurd libraries (libstore). Will there be such a facility in
paxutils?

Thanks,
Ludovic.

PS: I'm not a list member.

[1] http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/paxutils-forum/2002-June/000138.html