Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Apr 1998 21:13:06 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: tarfs - this is done! [Re: Proposed new file system?] |
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Hi!
> > BTW I have this done :-). It is working on my machine, and I'm now > > polishing it. I've stolen code from mc, so I can do tar, tgz, arj, > > zip, zoo, ..., and ftp. I'm doing it using fake NFS server. Problem > > is that NFS server is single threaded. > > Would you mind if I had a look at it? My interest isn't in the .tar fs > as such, but in a system like ZipMagic, where the first request for an > archive file causes it to be expanded into a directory...
Ook, this is rather similar to what we do.
> One thing I did note is that in the man page for chattr there's > reference to a (currently unimplemented) attribute +c that can be set > on a file to cause it to be automatically compressed on storage and > expanded on reading, and that's what I was thinking of hooking into, > with a utility to automatically set the +c attribute on compressed > files, and if they're also archive files, the expansion turns them > into directories...
There's already better way to do this: see ext2compr.
Pavel > Also, does your system include rar archives?
Yes. I essentialy stolen part of mc and made it part of nfsd.
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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