From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 20 06:26:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15325 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 06:26:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ion.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr ([193.50.7.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA15309 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 06:26:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpd@ion.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr) Received: from ion.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ion.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA24078; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:14:06 +0200 Message-ID: <35DC211E.C02AF8CF@ion.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:14:06 +0200 From: "Jean_Pierre H. Dumas" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG CC: jphdumas@lemel.fr Subject: Zip and virtual FS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message