On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Andreas Brusinsky wrote:

> Is there a compressed filesystem for unix available? 
> So that a compile process just acts inside of a tar file or so. 

Well, the idea is interesting, but I can only imagine this being practical
if it's a read-only filesystem that you could layer something else on top
of.  I'm not sure it's really worth the effort, though... you'd certainly
take a significant performance hit.

--scott