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

[Andrew Suffield]

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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