## About
Derived originally from [minitar](https://github.com/genonullfree/minitar), this
crate implements basic functionality for creating and extracting tar archives. It
has been adapted to allow creation of a Node (Tar header + 512byte blocks of data)
from the raw data plus file metadata. This allows for better efficiency when it
is embedded into another application (such as a package manager), as the raw data
and metadata about each file can be extracted once and reused for purposes such
as generating checksums, getting file sizes and creating packing lists.