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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape file system
Date: 18 Apr 1997 19:41:13 GMT
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tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) wrote:

> You'd be better off building in better error correction to tar.

This would be the same like an error correction for SCSI (or IDE)
disks: useless.  Decent tape drives do read-after-write anyway.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)