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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml
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Robert Collins |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml |
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Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:30:46 +1100 |
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 11:03, David Brown wrote:
> If you're speaking of the 'zip' format that zip and unzip use, it can be
> accessed randomly. There is a table of contents at the end of the file
> that contains the offsets of every file in the zip file.
>
> It doesn't have random access writing/updating, however.
So if you are getting a 5Gb zip off of tape, you have to get the whole
freaking thing to get to the directory.
You can't update a part of the zip file without shuffling the entire
thing up or down to accomodate.
Rob
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Miles Bader, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Thomas Zander, 2003/12/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Robert Collins, 2003/12/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Thomas Zander, 2003/12/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, David Brown, 2003/12/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml,
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Tom Lord, 2003/12/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Eric W. Biederman, 2003/12/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Christopher Dale, 2003/12/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Tom Lord, 2003/12/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Tom Lord, 2003/12/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Eric W. Biederman, 2003/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Robert Collins, 2003/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Tom Lord, 2003/12/13
- [Gnu-arch-users] Considering Semantics with a simple but stupid file archive format., Eric W. Biederman, 2003/12/13
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch lkml, Miles Bader, 2003/12/10