Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008 schrieb Tom Lane:
> (Thinks for a bit...) Actually I guess there's one extra assumption in
> there, which is that tar must issue its reads in multiples of our page
> size. But that doesn't seem like much of a stretch.
There is something about that here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/tar_149.html#SEC149
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Peter Eisentraut
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