Messages in this thread | | | From | Steve VanDevender <> | Date | Sat, 7 Jul 2001 14:44:26 -0700 | Subject | Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems |
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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'.
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