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Re: Read-write tarfs
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James Morrison |
Subject: |
Re: Read-write tarfs |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Jan 2003 08:13:03 -0800 (PST) |
--- "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> wrote:
> Sure. ;) But I think you missed the point: The `--volatile' options
> makes newly created nodes "volatile". That is, they won't get
> synced to the tarball when asking the translator to go away. :)
>
> Ponder, what is the point of removing the object files; isn't that a
> bit bakwards? Removing debugging symbols is probobly as stupid...
No, it's not backwards. It makes perfect sense. Removing debugging symbols
also makes sense for most binaries. I think the volatile feature is really
cool. No more untarring stuff onto the filesystem when it can all stay in
RAM :)
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James Morrison
University of Waterloo
Computer Science - Digital Hardware
2B co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org
Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU
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