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

[James Tabor]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Hirokazu
> Takahashi (h-takaha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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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