Re: new filesystem: zipfs

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:57:47 -0500


You can sort of do this already with Midnight Commander, which uses a
virtual filesystem allowing transparent access to archives and network
resources.

-----Original Message-----
From: Parmelan, Edouard <EP510777@exchange.FRANCE.NCR.com>
To: 'linux-kernel' <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 6:01 PM
Subject: new filesystem: zipfs

>Hi,
>
>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.
>
>
>Please reply directly to Edouard.Parmelan@France.NCR.COM
>
>Edouard.
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