Some sort of filter based filesystem

[Lowell Gilbert]

Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions at theloosingend.net> writes:

> * Lowell Gilbert [2005-07-20 09:19 -0400]
> >  You're right that the outputs wouldn't *have* to be pre-generated, but 
> >  doing it on the fly would make the project both more difficult to 
> >  implement and (I think) less convenient to use.
> 
> This, I do not get. Why is it, that this would be less convenient? In 
> fact, I see no other use for this than to save disk space when you want 
> data available in several (information perserved) formats?

I see it as being something you will usually want when you're copying
the music off somewhere else.  In that case, the speed hit would be
annoying.  I don't expect people to play the same songs in different
formats on the same machine...