From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 22 04:46:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA22980 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 04:46:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gmailint1.globalmail.net (cmut1.minitel.net [193.252.91.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA22975 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 04:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jphdumas@lemel.fr) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 13:45:59 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199808221145.NAA03313@gmailint1.globalmail.net> From: jphdumas@lemel.fr (JPH Dumas) Reply-To: jphdumas@lemel.fr To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Zip achives mountable ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ? It is done (in applications in some, may be at kernel level in others) with big success in other OS'es. The JavaPC does it right, for .zip and .jar files. If I am not mistaken, the zip uncompress is already in the kernel, right ? jp jphdumas@lemel.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message