Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 11:02:27 +0100 (BST) From: Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>, lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at, philip_milne@il.us.swissbank.com, hackers@freebsd.org, armando_ferreira@il.us.swissbank.com, charlie_conklin@il.us.swissbank.com Subject: Re: Nightmare. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960815105957.9186A-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <14039.840020213@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard 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. Well, this would be handy, but what would be really useful is making ufs understand both tar and tar.gz files, so we could do things like:- cd fred.tar.gz ls file1 file2 file3 cp file1 /tmp cp /tmp/file1b file1 Etc.. I remember a similar thing on the Amiga that handled lha files in this way.. but lha compressed each file in the archive seperatley so the whole archive did not need to be de-compressed to get to a single file. Regards, Trefor S.
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