From: Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
Eugene Crosser <crosser@average.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 14:44:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15175.33466.62900.43575@localhost.efn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010707233108.B10109@pcep-jamie.cern.ch>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107070727030.24836-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <9i73bg$psv$1@pccross.average.org> <3B471399.1D6BBED6@mandrakesoft.com> <01070719241107.22952@starship> <20010707233108.B10109@pcep-jamie.cern.ch>
Jamie Lokier writes:
> (tar has a silly pad-to-multiple-of-512-byte per file rule, which is
> inappropriate for this).
If you remember that 'tar' means "tape archiver", and that at the time
it was written the standard tape block size was 512 bytes, the rule
isn't silly at all, although it may be undesirable overhead for modern
uses of 'tar'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-07 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-04 10:37 [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems Dave J Woolley
2001-07-04 11:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-04 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-05 8:20 ` Helge Hafting
2001-07-05 8:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-05 11:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-05 13:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-05 15:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-06 7:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-06 8:45 ` Helge Hafting
2001-07-06 11:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-06 12:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-09 23:05 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-07 10:32 ` Eugene Crosser
2001-07-07 11:32 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-07 13:37 ` Eugene Crosser
2001-07-07 13:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 17:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-07 21:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-08 7:26 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-08 16:46 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-09 14:40 ` Anthony DeBoer
2001-07-07 21:44 ` Steve VanDevender [this message]
2001-07-07 11:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 21:40 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-07 21:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 22:00 ` arjan
2001-07-07 22:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 22:04 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-07 22:14 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-08 2:57 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-12 15:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-12 16:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-12 21:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-06 5:26 Andreas Dilger
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