Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: A compression filesystem Message-ID: <18946@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 13 Feb 91 23:57:52 GMT References: <850@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1991Feb13.052608.23920@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 49 In article <1991Feb13.052608.23920@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) writes: >dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes: > >>In article cpc@czaeap.UUCP (Chris Cebelenski) writes: >>|Here's an idea I've been tossing around: >>| > > >>I've seen this idea proposed periodically since I first started reading the >>net a year ago. Nothing ever seems to come of it though. Maybe it's not >>really worth the effort? > >Well, you got it :-) > >Iv'e frequently thought of taking the source to something like ZOO, and >turning it into a filesystem. That would probly be the easiest way. > >Unfortunatly, I haven't much need for it, so I don't have much ambition >to try it :-( > >I guess it will take somebody who needs it bad enuf to write it themselves. I think the sequence goes something like this: 2 drive floppy programmer/developer has hard time fitting a development environment on disks...sees a solution in automatic compression/decompression, notes the Amiga supports alternate filesystems, and *poof* another idea for COMPRESS: or ZOO: or ARC: is born. The intrepid programmer bravely begins development of the handler...soon runs into the usual problems of floppy based development. Looks into the budget, decides to spring for a small hard disk...it will make development work so much faster... Then suddenly, the intense need for COMPRESS: seems to decrease, and there are many more interesting projects out there.... andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "God was able to create the world in only seven days because there was no installed base to consider." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.