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ehlo.

> If you become a bored person requiring entertainment, it might be quite
> interesting to create a read-only tarfs for use as a root file system
> loaded in an md device.

   I'm just curious: is it possible to write a GEOM class to mount
   a given tar as a FS in R/O mode (using libarchive, I mean)?

dozen