>> If the filesystem is FFS, and it is run as a user who can read the
>> raw disk, my tar qualifies [...]
> This is mousetar in pkgsrc right?

Presumably, but I don't know for sure - I didn't create the package,
nor have I looked at it.

> I'll have to take a look.

If the source file doesn't have a comment block heading each function,
it is rather severely out of date.  (I'll be happy, of course, to send
you a modern version if you like.)  Any version that has the commenting
should have the FFS-reading code.  I don't think I've touched that part
of it in a long time.

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