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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tar as filesystem
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tar as filesystem |
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Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:35:12 +0000 |
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:01:04AM +0000, John Goerzen wrote:
> 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.
I am fairly sure that zip handles unix metadata; it's the common
implementations that don't.
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