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SubjectRe: new filesystem: zipfs
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Gavin M. Roy wrote:

>I could see from a user perspective this might be nice, what about a
>filesystem that could plug into any of the standard
>compression/decompression and archive utilities, detects what type based
>upon the mounted file, and goes out to bz2/gz/tar/zip, etc and handles it?
>No need for many filesystem types, if one intelligent one is written.

userfs

I don't much see the need for anything else, and I don't think
the kernel should be bloated by something that can be done in
userland very easily. Next, people will want to put the Netscape
new layout engine into the kernel, so it runs faster, and opens
HTML files transparently without the app needing to know that it
is an HTML file...

No thanks, my kernel is good enough coming in at < 1Mb.



>>>I need see the content of a ZIP file as a regular
>>>filesystem.
>>>
>>>Why ? For example to mount jdk12-doc.zip.
>>>It's a 16Mo archive that extract to 85Mo with 5020 files :(
>>>
>>>I think that if someone write a READ ONLY Zip filesystem
>>>(call it zipfs) for Linux it could be great for everybody :)
>>>
>>>Is anybody had already write it ?
>>>If yes, where I can find it ?
>>>
>>>Else is some other guys want it ?
>>>If yes, I need some help to create it.
>>
>>Pointless IMHO. Download e2compr package and have ext2
>>compress/decompress the directory for you allready. No need to
>>have 1000 different compressed filesystems floating around.



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