20 Dec
2014
20 Dec
'14
8:19 a.m.
On 12/20/14 2:43 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
what are people trying to achieve
Chuck is trying to embed metadata in tape image files.
The only way to do this and be backwards compatible is to append
a record to the end of the image.
The argument is what the contents of that record should look like
A magic string "TAPEINFO" as the first eight bytes of that record
and colon separated keywords has been proposed for the rest.
At a minimum, the actual container format and version
the image is written in should be there!