Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 07:34:38 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@winston.freebsd.org, pst@pst.org, des@ofug.org, mi@aldan.algebra.com, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade Message-ID: <20020403073438.A95228@iguana.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020403103232.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20020403004645.T45452-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <XFMail.20020403103232.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:32:32AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: ... > That's why libh uses zip rather than tar. zip uses a table at the beginning of > hte file where as tar's records are inline, correct? Thus with zip all your actually i think zip's table is at the end but the advantages are what you said. cheers luigi > metadata is in one fixed location but in tar it's scattered all over the file > and you have to seek around to find bits, which would be very slow unless you > cached it. > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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