Hi: Porting Cramfs on FreeBSD

[Eric Anderson]

On 10/03/06 07:38, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> writes:
>> No, only inode+direntries need to fit into memory.  So an FS with
>> 1million inodes might take .5MB of memory (estimate).
> 
> How are you going to do that?  Whenever you want to read a file,
> you'll have to start decompressing the entire tarball from the
> beginning, since it's a single gzip stream.  You can't just seek to an
> arbitrary position in the stream and start decompressing there.
> 
> DES

First, that .5MB estimate was off by quite a bit - I'm not sure what I 
was calculating when I did that, but I know I was tired.  :)

Anyway, I'm not currently supporting compressed archives, but obviously 
they would be very useful and are on my roadmap.  Tim Kientzle gave me 
some ideas, and I'll ping him again when I get to that point.'

Eric


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