Re: Request: Test suite for EFS.

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> If the abstraction is good enough then we could implement all the
> proposed ideas as implementations of that abstraction, i.e. offer
> the user the choice of saving as efs, tar, directory, whatever.

But the tar and directory suggestions aren't viable for what libefs is to do.

> 
> I'm just wary of a new binary format which is merely a reimplementation
> of existing code.
> 

Not really. The closest thing is tar (or another packaging format), and as they
are flat it is fairly useless (and for the other reasons meantioned).

iain