On Fri, 9 May 2008, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> FUSE is great, but... >> >> It means interoperability must be an explicit planned-in-advance action: >> if a datastore is already on a removable device in your pocket, and you >> need to access something on a foreign system, you are stuck unless there >> is some minimal level of human interpretability of the file system... > > You implicitly assume that the kids have managed to get DS formatted > files onto the external device here, though, which is something I > don't think we /need/ to do if we don't want to. I guess the case that > worries me here, though, is backup. I'm not sure it's prudent to > "decompress" and "recompress" with each backup and restore...
may I suggest that you dig into git and see how it manages to avoid sending everything uncompressed when you do a pull. it sounds like a very similar problem and so similar solutions may apply. David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
