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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 05:26:31PM -0700, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Having an option for tar would allow the user to make the choice.
> Ultimately, the user knows best (or at least can, if they care enough
> to sit down and think about it) what the access patterns will be.

It also has the benefit of possibly being useful on other systems besides
Linux.

How many other systems suffers from the same/similar issue?

mrc
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