I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried to implement tar files as a filesystem
in Linux ?
It sounds to me like it would be simple (at least for the read-only case), and
could be useful, eg. easily examining and extracting files from distributions
of software, or recovering backups, without having to use special commands.
Probably using compressed tar files ( *.tar.gz ) would be tricky and slow
though I suspect, since decoding each byte depends on the whole earlier
contents of the file (as I understand it).
Just a thought ..
Scott Gordon
Physics Department
Queensland University
Australia
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