Hi: Porting Cramfs on FreeBSD

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> writes:
> No, only inode+direntries need to fit into memory.  So an FS with
> 1million inodes might take .5MB of memory (estimate).

How are you going to do that?  Whenever you want to read a file,
you'll have to start decompressing the entire tarball from the
beginning, since it's a single gzip stream.  You can't just seek to an
arbitrary position in the stream and start decompressing there.

DES
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