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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tar as filesystem


From: John Goerzen
Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tar as filesystem
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 03:01:04 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2003-12-29, Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Perhaps these observations can be helpful the next time
> tar-as-filesystem comes up:

Not really novel here.  You may, however, find zip to be a much more
useful "filesystem".  It is designed to random access.  Tools already
exist to do true adding/updating/deleting.  And you get some compression
for free.

Zip's traditional downsides are that it does not handle Unixy metadata
terribly well, but that is not of great importance here, since only
plain files and directories are being stored, and it is fine with those.

-- John





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