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From: grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen)
Subject: Re: Compressing file system ?
Message-ID: <1993Aug6.235726.6920@convex.com>
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Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1993 23:57:26 GMT
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In article <23uljg$5t@pdq.coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>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.
This software is called "alex". It would be a good point to start with, because
you dan't have hack inside the kernel.
Regards
Stefan
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