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Date:      Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:14:06 +0200
From:      "Jean_Pierre H. Dumas" <jpd@ion.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        jphdumas@lemel.fr
Subject:   Zip and virtual FS
Message-ID:  <35DC211E.C02AF8CF@ion.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr>

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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.
If I am not mistaken, the zip uncompress is already in the kernel, right
?

jp

jphdumas@lemel.fr



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