Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 07 Nov 2004 07:15:00 +0000 | From | James Tabor <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]tar filesystem for 2.6.10-rc1-mm3(easily access tar file) |
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andyliu wrote: > hi > > let's think about the way we access the file which contained in a tar file > may we can untar the whole thing and we find the file we want to access > or we can use the t option with tar to list all the files in the tar > and then untar the only one file we want to access. > > but with the help of the tarfs,we can mount a tar file to some dir and access > it easily and quickly.it's like the tarfs in mc. > > just mount -t tarfs tarfile.tar /dir/to/mnt -o loop > then access the files easily. > > it was writen by Kazuto Miyoshi (kaz@earth.email.ne.jp) Hirokazu > Takahashi (h-takaha@mub.biglobe.ne.jp) for linux 2.4.0 > > and i make it work for linux 2.6.0. now a patch for linux 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 > > the patch is to big to send it as plain text, so i can only send it as > an attachment > > thanks > Wow! How cool is this! Can you copy files into a tarfs subsystem? Just like we do with iso's? Cool, James
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