Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Finding/designing a tar replacement

[Ben Escoto]

On 25 Sep 2003 08:13:10 +0100 Kevin Spicer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Worth pointing out that a filesystem image is generally likely to be
> larger than a tar file because of slack space (although using a smaller
> blocksize helps).

Hmm, I wouldn't want to use anything that required any slack space.
The primary goal is still an archive for duplicity that replaces the
tar format.  If result were also easily mountable and used as a
filesystem, so much the better.  (And after you mentioned it, it seems
this should be possible.)


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Ben Escoto

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