From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 3 11:20:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA13898 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.vis.net.uk [194.207.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13886 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dylan.visint.co.uk (dylan.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.180]) by bagpuss.visint.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA15652; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:22:53 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:18:50 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome To: Thomas Gidden , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mount_tar or something... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [Windows user stupid question...] Q.I can't find a mount_tar command, I wonder why ! A.because it would be silly and no doubt have a 64MB limit. I think I've seen this question go past before, but more along the lines of why can't I read my "stackered/compressed windows drive?" Well, I don't use windows unless I really have to, so that's not a problem, all I'd like is to have a compressed ufs or something. I can happily tar up all my man pages, the handbook, even virtually all my executables. (which is probably a stupid idea!) However I _can't_ have a filesystem which is just plain compressed. Is anyone working on this, has it been done, have I missed something? If not are there any plans to do this, and if not why not ? Thanks, Steve Roome. (idiot?!) -- [Insert generic boring signature with amazing qualifications and important sounding job title. Oh and phone number for fun.]