Re: where to put tar storage object...

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Ettore Perazzoli <ettore helixcode com> writes:

> > - that it should run as a separate process and go into
> > components/. This makes sense if it grew -- miguel would like it to do
> > lots of nifty caching of untarred files and the like.
> 
>   I think this is the way to go.  This way you can have a sort of tar
> file server that can optimize access for all the files that are
> contained in the same tar file.  For example, you don't have to re-open
> and re-sync the tar file all the time, and multiple applications can
> access the same archive concurrently without messing up.  

Oh, that'd be a great thing to have :-)

>   (You can either have a per-file process, or a global process for all
> the tarfiles.  I tend to think that the former is the way to go.)
> 
>   The same approach is very useful for networking monikers, that can do
> global caching across different applications...  This is one of the
> reasons why Monikers are cool, and make it possible to do things that
> are not allowed with a more simple gnome-vfs-like approach.  :-)

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