Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Apr 1998 21:05:56 +0100 (BST) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Proposed new file system? |
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Hi there.
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Riley Williams wrote:
>> I've been thinking about having a go at a zfs (zip file system) >> or tgzfs (tar-gzip file system) that works along the lines of the >> Windows ZipMagic program. Basically, it'd be a loopback system >> that allowed the contents of a zip or tar-gzip file to be treated >> as a directory.
I had it pointed out to me that a .tar.gzip file would be particularly difficult to use since gzip compresses everything from start to end, so I would probably look at either .zip or a .tar of a collection of .gz files, and deal with that later...
>> What do you think of the idea? Also, is anybody working on >> such a system at the moment, and if not, is it worth pursuing?
> A long time ago (a year or two) there was a user filesystem for > Linux that had a "tar filesystem" as one of the examples if I > remember correctly.
> And there have been various "fake NFS servers" that essentially > look like local NFS filesystems that work on many different > UNIX-like systems. I think the most wellknown was called > "cryptfs" (it essentially gave you a cryptographically secure > filesystem).
> Do an internet search on "userfs" or "user level filesystem" or > "cryptfs" and something will probably pop up.
Here's the search results from www.yahoo.com as just received:
1. "userfs" generated 16 matches to various addresses under http://userfs.cec.wustl.edu - presumably a match for every different web page on that server since the domain name includes the string being searched for. Of these, ten no longer work...
2. "user level filesystem" generated 600,622 matches, of which the first 100 were all references to a file system for an optical drive...
3. "cryptfs" generated 5 matches, two to non-exist URL's, two others pointing to the same page, which describes the CryptFS file system in great detail, but unfortunately in German, a language I know nothing about, and the final one pointing to an English translation of that page with no details where I could get further info...
Obvious other search patterns tried were:
4. "tar filesystem" generated 129,290 matches, of which the first 100 all referred to the "tar" program...
5. "Linux tar filesystem" generated 896,834 matches, of which the bulk of the early ones were identical to those from (4) above.
6. "tar +filesystem" generated 11 matches, none of which were any use to me, although ZLIBC looked promising...
7. "+tar +filesystem" generated 7,884 matches, of which the first 100 again all referred to the "tar" program, although this time they referred to emails about problems crossing between filesystems...
8. "+tar +filesystem -boundary" generated 7,495 matches. One of them was http://mc.blackdown.org/mc/maillist/95-05/72.html and appears to be the original announcement of the "tar filesystem" back in May 1995, but the email address attached to it bounced so this didn't get me any further...
9. "+Linux +tar +filesystem" generated 3,227 matches, of which the first was the one referenced in (8) above, and the bulk of the rest appeared to be connected with porting GNU Pascal ???
Since I use RedHat 5.0, I tried the following...
10. "+Linux +tar +filesystem +Redhat" generated 226 matches, mainly to do with installing Redhat Linux on Sparc's, or with the Linux Gazette...
At this stage, my imagination failed me, so if somebody can suggest either a URL or a search string that finds one, I'd much appreciate it...
Best wishes from Riley.
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