Re: suggestion: do not keep files in tar archives.
Miek Gieben <[email protected]>
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[On 16 Dec, @08:23, Jesper wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] suggestion: do ..."] > blackie-1tkZHNPFh85/[email protected] (Jesper K. Pedersen) writes: > | This would store all the files on the disk, and I could thus access them > | very fast (within secs), as I would have random access to them. > | > | Hope you like the idea and soon find time for implementing it. > | > | Cheers > | Jesper. > I just discussed the issue with some of my coworkers, and they suggested > that afio is capable of doing random access in the files. Thus replacing > tar with afio in hdup might be even simpler than the above suggestion. It should be possible to just switch tar with afio. The holidays are coming up, i'm taking some time off, so this sounds like a great holiday project :-) grtz Miek