From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Nov 28 18: 4:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E3C37B417 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:04:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 1984081D04; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:04:16 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:04:16 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Marc Blanchet Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tgz filesystem Message-ID: <20011128200416.Q46769@elvis.mu.org> References: <224030000.1006998892@classic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <224030000.1006998892@classic>; from Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:54:52PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Marc Blanchet [011128 19:52] wrote: > Hi, > - I would like to use a tar-gzip filesystem that mounts a tgz file. The This would be nearly useless, a .tgz file is a tar file (which has no TOC) in a gzipp'd stream. Meaning that browsing it is pretty much impossible without extracting the whole thing anyhow. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message