Hi, Peter Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> any software should be targeting its users' needs, not the political > goals of the supporting organization. Well, whether you like it or not, the GNU project _is_ political. > Hard links are an optimization. tla works (or could work) fine > without them. Right, but this optimization has a significant impact on performance. > Long paths aren't neccessary for a good archive format, so I wouldn't > call the path length an "unacceptable design constraint". Right, the archive format could probably be modified to be less demanding on path length. That said, this really is a limitation, I'd even say a flaw, of the underlying OS. You wouldn't want to worry about 8.3 file names for instance, would you? Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
