Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:59:06 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nightmare. Message-ID: <199608150659.AA203732347@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Aug 1996 03:56:53 PDT."
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> a) Write a filesystem which understands tar files natively. Note: there may
> be a slight performance penalty for folks running with their root
> partitions mounted on a TARFS - perhaps we could note this somewhere.
While you're at it, how about tar-on-a-tape-FS? There's an MSDOS
driver that makes a tape drive look like a disk drive. Why not have
something similar for FreeBSD? People can then use their tape drive as
a disk. Imagine having the root disk on tape! "Infinite storage!"
(1001 evil ;-})
What about ZIPFS, or CPIOFS? ZOOFS? ARCFS? LBRFS? Punch-tape-FS
is possible, but it wouldn't be politically correct -- too many trees
would get cut down. ;-}
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
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