From: Timothee Besset (timo@qeradiant.com)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 11:43:56 EST
Yes .. I guess in some way I am looking for a filesystem. Actually this
would be great if it could run in two modes, inside zip files or "expanded"
in the filesystem. With an easy way to collapse everything in a single file
if I want to (for sending and exchange). This is because this data would be
downloaded by chunks, I would need some chunks to remain monolitic (because
I am checksuming them for security reasons) and others would be expanded in
the file system for everyday storage. (mainly some offline preprocessing
data I don't want to recompute each time I run).
how does this sound?
TTimo
At 04:59 PM 1/4/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:41:04AM -0600, Timothee Besset wrote:
> >
> > How well does the zip approach allow file modification? Let's say I end up
> > with a zip file that's 300Mb, in which I randomly add and remove chunks
> (of
> > the size of an average file, say 100kb)? I understand this zip format
> would
> > be fine for reading, but I'm a bit worried about writing performances :-)
>
> Well I don't care too much about writing performances, it's a packaging
>format not a filesystem. Similary XML is a good interchange format but I
>would not make it the internal memory representation of my programs data.
>
>Daniel
>
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