Re: [PATCH]tar filesystem for 2.6.10-rc1-mm3(easily access tar file)

From: andyliu
Date: Sun Nov 07 2004 - 08:11:31 EST


On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 13:38:54 +0100 (CET), Tomasz KÅoczko
<kloczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Nov 7, 2004, at 08:06, andyliu wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > Simply wonderful!
>
> Which is ~equal to .. unpack tarfile.tar to /dir/to/mnt :o)
if the tarfile.tar contain huge little file and unpack it will cost
time and much disk space.

but this filesystem reduce time and use none disk space but it use ram

have you ever use mc's tarfs,they are a little like.
>
> kloczek
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Yours andyliu
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