On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 07:04:06PM -0500, Eben King wrote:
>
>> I downloaded a bunch of PDBs (3D chemical models) from the nice folks at
>> wwdb.com and their rsync script. It's around 7.3 GiB when broken into
>> subdirectories and each subdir is tarred and bzipped, but around 40-45 GiB
>> decompressed. That's the sort of thing I can't justify keeping around
>> uncompressed, but the viewer doesn't dive into archives automatically. Is
>> there any sort of filesystem that stores data compressed then uncompresses
>> it automatically, sort of like Stacker for Linux? I guess if there were
>> software which enabled random access on a compressed file and I
>> loopback-mounted that file, that would work.
>
> My understanding is that mc and many other file managers will
> automatically decompress a file on the fly when you click on the
> filename.
> No, this isn't what you asked for, but I suspect it's easier than what
> you might have to go through to find and install a whole filesystem that
> does this.
They will. To do this, they decompress the entire thing into /tmp.
Unfortunately, this won't fit and it would take way long to decompress ~7
GiB of data first. Good start though. It does work rather nicely with
uncompressed tar files.
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