Re: interface for tar
I'm not sure what you're saying here.
It seems more appropriate to use a database instead of files in this case.
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 15:05, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Databases aren't filesystems, and they shouldn't be treated as such.
> Especially if the text BLOBs need to be analyzed, summarized, etc.
>
> On 08/20/08 06:34, Shachar Or wrote:
> > After solving the problem in the immediate consider telling the developer
> > of that simulation software to use a database!
> >
> > On Wednesday 20 August 2008 03:40, Mag Gam wrote:
> >> 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?
>
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