Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:22:02 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Vladimir Dozen <vladimir-dozen@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for Comments: libarchive, bsdtar Message-ID: <29371.1074115322@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:52:27 EST." <40059DFB.9000904@mail.ru>
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In message <40059DFB.9000904@mail.ru>, Vladimir Dozen writes: >ehlo. > >> If you become a bored person requiring entertainment, it might be quite >> interesting to create a read-only tarfs for use as a root file system >> loaded in an md device. > > I'm just curious: is it possible to write a GEOM class to mount > a given tar as a FS in R/O mode (using libarchive, I mean)? That would be a filesystem, not a GEOM class. And yes it would be. Part of the trouble is directory searches where you need to build some kind of index in order to not have to run through sequentially all the time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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