Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 13:45:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: jphdumas@lemel.fr (JPH Dumas) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Zip achives mountable ? Message-ID: <199808221145.NAA03313@gmailint1.globalmail.net>
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Considering the incredible waste of disk ressources by trees like ports/, and other mainly dormant source directories, is there any way to use the virtual filesystem feature, with a .zip file instead of an uncompressed one, to just mount it when needed (mount_zip ports.zip /ports) and enjoy the very fast direct access to any file or directory ? It is done (in applications in some, may be at kernel level in others) with big success in other OS'es. The JavaPC does it right, for .zip and .jar files. If I am not mistaken, the zip uncompress is already in the kernel, right ? jp jphdumas@lemel.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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