Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:25:02 -0400 From: Hornet <hornetmadness@gmail.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some sort of filter based filesystem Message-ID: <f42935a6050721082547987eda@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44oe8wi66m.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20050718163250.D28772@maren.thelosingend.net> <44d5peixay.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050720004530.B48721@maren.thelosingend.net> <44ackhk43d.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050721001829.D61532@maren.thelosingend.net> <44oe8wi66m.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 21 Jul 2005 10:29:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> writes= : >=20 > > * Lowell Gilbert [2005-07-20 09:19 -0400] > > > You're right that the outputs wouldn't *have* to be pre-generated, b= ut > > > doing it on the fly would make the project both more difficult to > > > implement and (I think) less convenient to use. > > > > This, I do not get. Why is it, that this would be less convenient? In > > fact, I see no other use for this than to save disk space when you want > > data available in several (information perserved) formats? >=20 > I see it as being something you will usually want when you're copying > the music off somewhere else. In that case, the speed hit would be > annoying. I don't expect people to play the same songs in different > formats on the same machine... It seems that if you were to do such a thing, that's all that box would be able to do is the conversion until you are done. Also if you are reading faster then you are writing and don't have lots-o-ram, its all going to go to swap. Then you are writing the file essentially twice, and boging down the drive even futher.
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