Re: Q: Is there a compressed filesystem?

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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 11:04:45 +0300
From: Stanislav Grozev <tacho@deeplaid.uni-svishtov.bg>

> 
> One question comes up when I untar all these huge source distributions:
> 
> Can tar files be accessed directly as a kind of filesystems?
> 
> I mean source files for a user that likes to compile something are just 
> needed for the compile process and are a waste of space after the binaries
> are build. The uncompressed source files consume quite a bit of filesystem 
> space.
> I know the concept of a compressed filesystem from the PC-DOS world but
> believe that this is not a bad thing to have also for unix.
> 
> Is there a compressed filesystem for unix available? 
> So that a compile process just acts inside of a tar file or so. 
> 
> 

I suggest looking at the Midnight Commander code... they implement some sort
of VFS for mc to be available to present tar and tgz files as directories.
a kernel patch with this filesystem code in core would do the trick. the
question is - who will do the job?:))





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         Stanislav Grozev
         (aka Tacho)
     
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