Re: new filesystem: zipfs

Gavin M. Roy (gavinroy@nextpath.com)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:11:51 -0800

I could see from a user perspective this might be nice, what about a
filesystem that could plug into any of the standard
compression/decompression and archive utilities, detects what type based
upon the mounted file, and goes out to bz2/gz/tar/zip, etc and handles it?
No need for many filesystem types, if one intelligent one is written.

Gavin
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike A. Harris <mharris@ican.net>
To: Parmelan, Edouard <EP510777@exchange.FRANCE.NCR.com>
Cc: 'linux-kernel' <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 08, 1999 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: new filesystem: zipfs

>On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Parmelan, Edouard wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Pointless IMHO. Download e2compr package and have ext2
>compress/decompress the directory for you allready. No need to
>have 1000 different compressed filesystems floating around.
>
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