* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:30:37PM -0500)
>>If I get it working, would you include it ?
> Absolutely.
Great.
>>We would need to link against the libtar.a from tar 1.13.19 alpha though.
>>Would that be a problem ?
> Not if it's done right :-).
> I'd suggest something like this:
> * Add library tests to configure.in ala the readline ones to see if
> libtar is available (I can help if you've never had the joy of
> working with autoconf).
I haven't, but it should not be too hard
(famous last words ;0 )
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> * Finally, I think a dumptype option should be added to control
> whether calcsize is used ("calcsize <boolean>", default is "no").
> I'm not sure what should happen if program is not "GNUTAR", or if
> it appears to be a Samba entry.
Calcsize works fine for ufsdump, xfsdump and the dump on Sunos 4.1.
(though xfsdump is faster [when I tested it (a year ago orso)])
It will likely give more or less correct answers for Linux dump as well
though I don;t have any linux boxes with an ext2 filesystem (except for the
/boot ).
More or less correct as in, the estimates are within a few % of the final
reported dumpsize, and the differences between the reported size and the
dumped size can easily be caused by the fact that the filesystem was life.
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