Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:47:35 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nightmare. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960815104618.8304J-100000@minnow.render.com> In-Reply-To: <199608150659.AA203732347@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>
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On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Darryl Okahata wrote: > > 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. ;-} More seriously, all these and more could be easily implemented using a decent USERFS which would allow a simple filesystem to be implemented in usermode. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 FAX: +44 171 734 6426
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