On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Simon Burge wrote:

> An ulgy idea is to store the file's checksum in the _next_ file's inode
> data, and have a dummy inode at the end of the tape with the last file's
> checksum in it.

How about a dummy, or even a real, file at the end of the tape with
all of the checksums in it?

cjs
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