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Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 07:15:00 +0000
From: James Tabor <jimtabor@adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH]tar filesystem for 2.6.10-rc1-mm3(easily access tar file)
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andyliu wrote:
> hi
> 
>   let's think about the way we access the file which contained in a tar file
> may we can untar the whole thing and we find the file we want to access
> or we can use the t option with tar to list all the files in the tar
> and then untar the only one file we want to access.
> 
>   but with the help of the tarfs,we can mount a tar file to some dir and access
> it easily and quickly.it's like the tarfs in mc.
> 
>  just mount -t tarfs tarfile.tar /dir/to/mnt -o loop
> then access the files easily.
> 
> it was writen by Kazuto Miyoshi (kaz@earth.email.ne.jp) Hirokazu
> Takahashi (h-takaha@mub.biglobe.ne.jp) for linux 2.4.0
> 
> and i make it work for linux 2.6.0. now a patch for linux 2.6.10-rc1-mm3
> 
> the patch is to big to send it as plain text, so i can only send it as
> an attachment
> 
> thanks
> 
Wow! How cool is this! Can you copy files into a tarfs subsystem? Just like
we do with iso's?
Cool,
James

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