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Re: tar file system
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Moritz Schulte |
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Re: tar file system |
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Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:01:06 +0100 |
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arun v <arunsark@yahoo.com> writes:
> Basically what libraries, i need to use -- i think libdiskfs will be
> needed!
No, you should use libnetfs, because the nodes in the directory
hierarchy provided by tarfs are "virtual" - in a way.
> How can i extract the tar files to directory?
I think you're misunderstanding something. The whole purpose of tarfs
is to provide transparent access to tar archives _without_ the need of
extracting the archive. Instead of extracting, you should be able to
simply use tarfs, which then provides a virtual filesystem for the
archive content - just as it has been extracted.
Some notes:
- tarfs should scan a given tar archive and construct a data structure
with the information it needs
- it could then for example build a complete hierarchy of nodes, which
corresponds to the content of the tar archive
- then all the netfs function have to be implemented to operate on
these data structures...
moritz
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Re: tar file system, Jeroen Dekkers, 2001/12/21