Request for Comments: libarchive, bsdtar

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> What's wrong with iso9660 filesystems created by mkisofs? 

(picking one such reply seemingly at random)

Good point.  With the RR extensions, that should work just fine. 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research