Re: TarFS

In reply to: Poul-Henning Kamp: "Re: TarFS"
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From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:49:40 UTC

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 01:23:01PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> --------
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes:
> 
> > > Side question: how hard is it to add and offset of tarball mount
> > > option?
> >
> > It shouldn't be hard, since all I/O goes through tarfs_io_read(), but
> > why would you want to?
> 
> To skip headers TarFS does not grok ?
Then tarfs should skip unsupported headers, enabled with an option.
If such header appears in the middle of known and important blocks,
an offset does not help.