On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Steve Downing wrote: > 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...
Alternately and possibly less efficient, you can gzip the individual files and use zless to view them. However I like the cramfs idea better I must admit. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Answering Machine/fax: 02 4950 1194 (wait 5 mins if no answer) Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
