tar filesystem

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 13:41 -0600, Joel Sherrill  wrote:
> FYI .. this was sent to rtems-users at OARcorp.com not rtems.com.  They
> are separate domains and machines now. :)
> 
> Eric Norum wrote:
> > Why is cpukit/libfs/src/imfs/imfs_load_tar.c no longer being built?  It 
> > looks like just the thing I need for my standalone EPICS IOC.
> 
> My guess is probably just an accidental oversight in some Makefile.am
> updates.
Probably, I don't know. Digging CVS-history shows it had been disabled a
very long time ago, and nobody seems to have missed it :(

>   The 4.7 tree uses a lot fewer Makefile.am's and something
> might have been missed.
>From what I see it also could be some unfinished work, because it shares
a lot of code with libmisc/untar (Definitely something to be worth
looking after).

Ralf