At 25 February 2002, Peter Hardy wrote: >On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 10:48, Steve Downing wrote: >> Is it possible to mount a zip/gzip/bzip file as part of the filesystem,
>> so it gets decompressed on the fly and only when needed? Similar >> to mounting an iso from a file I guess. >> I have a 20Meg docs folder which I don't always need, and it inflates >> to >100Meg, wasting a lot of space on the laptops' drive. > >If you don't mind recompressing them in a different format, then cramfs >should do the job fine. I don't know of anything to mount tarballs, >though. Shouldn't be too hard to modify cramfs if you're keen... :-) Looks promising. Whats it like performance wise? It'll be running on a P150/48M Ram. It's actually a WinZip file ATM, so I'll need to decompress it at least once anyway... cheers Steve -- Black holes were created when God divided by 0. http://www.helmsdeep.net/capn-k/ Linux | Windows | CAD | Audio Visualisation and more -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
