Some sort of filter based filesystem

[Hornet]

On 21 Jul 2005 10:29:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> 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...


It seems that if you were to do such a thing, that's all that box
would be able to do is the conversion until you are done. Also if you
are reading faster then you are writing and don't have lots-o-ram, its
all going to go to swap. Then you are writing the file essentially
twice, and boging down the drive even futher.