On 8/25/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I guess this is all related to IO though? > > Why don't you extract the files to another place and then simply > > link/unlink them instead of tar/rm? > > Something might alter the files. That would only ward against some > chroot corruptions and silently keep others. Very bad imho.
Can't you use a copy-on-write strategy for that?
