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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape file system Date: 18 Apr 1997 19:41:13 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5j8iop$5mt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5h0pfc$7vg@fu-berlin.de> <5h4s3i$mpl$1@otis.netspace.net.au> <5icinp$qu8@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39319 tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) wrote: > You'd be better off building in better error correction to tar. This would be the same like an error correction for SCSI (or IDE) disks: useless. Decent tape drives do read-after-write anyway. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)