Re: support for translators in tar

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:

> Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi> writes:
> > Now, where does the first translator save the second passive
> > translator so that it will survive reboots?  It doesn't fit in
> > the metadata of the underlying node.
> 
> Why should tar worry about that?  It seems both unnecessary and contrary
> to the way tar generally works.

Aagh -- I was trying to explain why it shouldn't!  But now that I
reread my message, I see I focused too much on how tar eventually
saves stacked passive translators and didn't emphasize that it's
the user's responsibility to tell tar which files to back up.