Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:31:56 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > With good cacheing, I could cd into the .tar.bz2 files and > _effectively_ have the performance of untarred source trees for the > ones I look at often on my disk -- automatically cleaned if the space > if needed for something else, too. It would be quite nice.
What you're talking about is just a caching filesystem. Then you can have any deamon do whatever it wants to fill it - whether from tar-files or over the network or anything else.
I think you should ask David Howells about it..
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