> You'd probably want a mutant
> form of gzipped tar, though:  instead of gzipping an entire tar archive, you'd
> probably want to tar up gzipped files instead.  

 Now thats a nice and constructive idea. I'll try out to create a partition
with sources only, dd-ed it and create a vnd-device for further use.
That's faster than a tar-filesystem.

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Markus Illenseer