Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:22:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Jean_Pierre H. Dumas" <jpd@ion.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jphdumas@lemel.fr Subject: Re: Zip and virtual FS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808222121480.20446-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35DC211E.C02AF8CF@ion.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr>
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Jean_Pierre H. Dumas wrote: > 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 ? Some people have tried to make compressed filesystems, but none are present in the default system. > 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 > ? It just calls 'zcat' against the binary and sucks the result into the image activator. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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