Re: new filesystem: zipfs

Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:38:25 +0100

On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 12:15:05AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> userfs

People always reocmmend userfs, but I haven't seen a working version for
years (i.e. at least not for 2.1 or 2.2).

Fortunately, there is http://dd.sh/perlfs/, which works for 2.1.

;)

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