Messages in this thread | | | From | "Gavin M. Roy" <> | Subject | Re: new filesystem: zipfs | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:11:51 -0800 |
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I could see from a user perspective this might be nice, what about a filesystem that could plug into any of the standard compression/decompression and archive utilities, detects what type based upon the mounted file, and goes out to bz2/gz/tar/zip, etc and handles it? No need for many filesystem types, if one intelligent one is written.
Gavin ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike A. Harris <mharris@ican.net> To: Parmelan, Edouard <EP510777@exchange.FRANCE.NCR.com> Cc: 'linux-kernel' <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Sent: Friday, January 08, 1999 5:01 PM Subject: Re: new filesystem: zipfs
>On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Parmelan, Edouard wrote: > >>I need see the content of a ZIP file as a regular >>filesystem. >> >>Why ? For example to mount jdk12-doc.zip. >>It's a 16Mo archive that extract to 85Mo with 5020 files :( >> >>I think that if someone write a READ ONLY Zip filesystem >>(call it zipfs) for Linux it could be great for everybody :) >> >>Is anybody had already write it ? >>If yes, where I can find it ? >> >>Else is some other guys want it ? >>If yes, I need some help to create it. > >Pointless IMHO. Download e2compr package and have ext2 >compress/decompress the directory for you allready. No need to >have 1000 different compressed filesystems floating around. > >-- >Mike A. Harris - Computer Consultant - Linux advocate > >Linux software galore: http://freshmeat.net > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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