Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 11:03, David Brown wrote:

> If you're speaking of the 'zip' format that zip and unzip use, it can be
> accessed randomly.  There is a table of contents at the end of the file
> that contains the offsets of every file in the zip file.
> 
> It doesn't have random access writing/updating, however.

So if you are getting a 5Gb zip off of tape, you have to get the whole
freaking thing to get to the directory.

You can't update a part of the zip file without shuffling the entire
thing up or down to accomodate.

Rob


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