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In message: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040114142135.49872F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
            Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> writes:
: I know NetBSD has a neat tool to create file systems from userspace
: without privilege, but my understanding is that it has to pull in a lot of
: code from the kernel in fairly messy ways.  Since tar files are a well
: supported portable format... :-)

The problem then reduces to needing to be able to create the tar file
with ownership/permissions different than is in the unpriv'd build
tree.  Generation of this list, as well as getting tar/whatever to
honor it are interesting problems.

Warner