> "Everything's better with XML, even tar". "XAR!" which is kind of fun > to yell came out of it.
; wc -l /sys/src/cmd/tapefs/tarfs.c
140 tarfs.c
tar is not that bad a format to use for structured data. it's easy to
implement.
you can capture data movement and fiddle with it easily.
that being said, i'd still much rather have a filesystem-like interface.
- erik
