From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 15 02:52:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA28240 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 02:52:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA28233 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 02:52:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (minnow.render.com [193.195.178.1]) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA20241; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:47:35 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:47:35 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Darryl Okahata cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nightmare. In-Reply-To: <199608150659.AA203732347@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Darryl Okahata wrote: > > a) Write a filesystem which understands tar files natively. Note: there may > > be a slight performance penalty for folks running with their root > > partitions mounted on a TARFS - perhaps we could note this somewhere. > > While you're at it, how about tar-on-a-tape-FS? There's an MSDOS > driver that makes a tape drive look like a disk drive. Why not have > something similar for FreeBSD? People can then use their tape drive as > a disk. Imagine having the root disk on tape! "Infinite storage!" > (1001 evil ;-}) > > What about ZIPFS, or CPIOFS? ZOOFS? ARCFS? LBRFS? Punch-tape-FS > is possible, but it wouldn't be politically correct -- too many trees > would get cut down. ;-} More seriously, all these and more could be easily implemented using a decent USERFS which would allow a simple filesystem to be implemented in usermode. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 FAX: +44 171 734 6426