<quote who="Steve Downing">

> 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.

With a user-space file system, yes. There's a few around, some of which use
the Midnight Commander vfs modules to do just this (and more).

- Jeff

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