Transparent access to DVD-RAM archives

[Mark Carroll <mark@chaos.x-philes.com>]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, nate wrote:
(snip)
> I think debsums is what you want(its a package). though last I heard
> not every debian package came with md5sums on the files, so it may
> not be 100%.
(snip)

Thanks very much, Nate - that's perfect. (-: I can now generate a good
exclude list with a simple Perl script.

A couple more questions for the list:

(a) Can I mount a compressed archive (e.g. from afio) as a read-only
filesystem somehow?

(b) Can I manipulate an ext2 FS on DVD-RAM on a low-spec machine? I know
that for actually burning DVD-Rs they sometimes want a faster machine.

-- Mark