From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 22:25:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB0416A41F for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:25:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from fri.itea.ntnu.no (fri.itea.ntnu.no [129.241.7.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B20B43D49 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:25:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fri.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772EE7F4C for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:25:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maren.thelosingend.net (maren.math.ntnu.no [129.241.211.48]) by fri.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with SMTP for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:25:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 62072 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Jul 2005 00:25:23 +0200 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Jul 2005 00:25:23 +0200 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:25:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen X-X-Sender: sveinhal@maren.thelosingend.net To: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <44ackhk43d.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-ID: <20050721001829.D61532@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <20050718163250.D28772@maren.thelosingend.net> <44d5peixay.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050720004530.B48721@maren.thelosingend.net> <44ackhk43d.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Content-Scanned: with sophos and spamassassin at mailgw.ntnu.no. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some sort of filter based filesystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:25:28 -0000 * Lowell Gilbert [2005-07-20 09:19 -0400] > You're right that the outputs wouldn't *have* to be pre-generated, but > doing it on the fly would make the project both more difficult to > implement and (I think) less convenient to use. This, I do not get. Why is it, that this would be less convenient? In fact, I see no other use for this than to save disk space when you want data available in several (information perserved) formats? > It would be pretty slow if you really did generate it on the fly. This is correct, and this is why this would not fit for all cases. However, alot of the time, one could want to sacrifice speed for space and the convenience of having just one master dataset to maintain. > Also, a lot of other things would get very tricky: for example, you > wouldn't have the file size available when listing a directory of > "virtual" files. This could be a real problem, I agree. Regards, Svein Halvor