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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Compressing file system ? Date: 6 Aug 1993 22:22:40 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <23uljg$5t@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <23rh55$ct@encap.Hanse.DE> <23tr2j$3tt@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> <23tsn3$7e@Germany.EU.net> <1993Aug6.200839.9675@udel.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pdq.coe.montana.edu In article <1993Aug6.200839.9675@udel.edu>, Scott C. Gray <sgray@ori.cis.udel.edu> wrote: >In article <23tsn3$7e@Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: >> >you can treat them as if they were uncompressed). Or imagine being >able to cd into a tar file. Or a tar.Z file. This won't happen, but >it is an interesting idea. I read somewhere that somebody had written a Mach server that would do this, same with ftp sites. -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu