Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: A compression filesystem Message-ID: <1991Feb13.112010.789@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 13 Feb 91 11:20:10 GMT References: Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 18 In article cpc@czaeap.UUCP (Chris Cebelenski) writes: > Anything else I might have forgotten to take into consideration? Yeh, the reason Unisys dropped compression on their drives. Programs get weird when the size of a disk depends on what's on it. One thing that would be cute, though, would be a read-only FS that was based on a Zipped/Zooed/LHArced/whatever file... 1> dir work:archives fred.zoo 1> dir zoo:work=archives/fred.zoo ; assume "=" maps to : fred fred.info fred.doc fred.doc.info 1> zoo:work=archives/fred.zoo/fred -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .