From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 22 21:24:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23334 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:24:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23329 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA29459; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:22:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:22:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Jean_Pierre H. Dumas" cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jphdumas@lemel.fr Subject: Re: Zip and virtual FS In-Reply-To: <35DC211E.C02AF8CF@ion.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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