Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 01:25:08PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>> How about multiple savecore backends, as we have for fsck and newfs, where
>> those for sparse formats might simply not return a panic string even if
>> asked?
> 
> Can't we just copy the panic string to a header early in the core?

Yes, that's what I planned on doing for this case. There's plentyplenty 
of space in the header.

Thanks for the information and suggestions so far, they've been rather 
useful.

--dho

> Martin
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