Re: interface for tar
2008/8/20 Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com>:
> At my university we run fluid dynamic simulations. These simulations
> create many small files (30,000) per hour. Their size is very small
> (20k to 200k). Instead of having this on the filesystem since it take
> up inode space, I would like to tar them per day into one tar file. I
> would then like an interface similar to zsh/ksh to "cd tar.file" and
> use it as a typeical shell. Do tools like that exist? That would be
> very benefical for us and our system admin does not have to yell at
> us.
> Any thoughts or ideas?
>
> TIA
Hey,
There are a few fuse drivers that can do what you're after[0]. There's
an article showing how one of them, archivemount, works on
linux.com[1].
cheers,
Owen.
[0] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ArchiveFileSystems
[1] http://www.linux.com/feature/132196
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