Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Mag Gam
FUSE looks really good. I am going to investigate it. TIA On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2008 16:18, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:29:00AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: >> > Sharchar: >> > >> > Can I do that with autof

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 16:18, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:29:00AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > > Sharchar: > > > > Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called > > /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for > > /home/$userid/& and automatically mo

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:29:00AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Sharchar: > > Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called > /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for > /home/$userid/& and automatically mount and unmount these fs images? > Lets say I keep the fs images i

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Glennie Vignarajah
Le Thursday 21 August 2008 vers 03:58, Mag Gam("Mag Gam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) a écrit: Hello, > I am very interested in the fuse AND the fs image solution. Is it > possible to integrate that into auto mounter or autofs type > solution? Afuse seems do this sort things. Have a look at http://afu

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Owen Townend wrote: > fuse allows users with filesystem access to an image to mount it > within one of their own directories. > There are fuse drivers for iso (fuseiso), ext (fuseext2), tar > (archivemount, avfs), tar, gzip, bzip2, rar (avfs), network (fusesmb). >

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Owen Townend
2008/8/21 Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sharchar: > > Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called > /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for > /home/$userid/& and automatically mount and unmount these fs images? > Lets say I keep the fs images in /home/$user/.isos

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Mag Gam
Sharchar: Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for /home/$userid/& and automatically mount and unmount these fs images? Lets say I keep the fs images in /home/$user/.isos ANy thoughts about this? Either way, thanks for

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:50, Mag Gam wrote: > David: > > Do you have some sort of script to manage this? I am a little hesitate > to give professors mkfs and mount sudo access. Is there a way around > this? You can specify the 'user' option in fstab so that usres can mount the relevant fil

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Mag Gam
Thank you all. I am very interested in the fuse AND the fs image solution. Is it possible to integrate that into auto mounter or autofs type solution? I don't want too many open mounts. If the /tmp/mountpoint it not open, I would like to automatically disregard the mount point. On Wed, Aug 20,

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Glennie Vignarajah
Le Wednesday 20 August 2008 vers 02:40, Mag Gam("Mag Gam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) a écrit: Hello, > 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. Try fuse[1]. It has a driver for tar(Archi

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
I've been a DBA for 10 (11?) years, but I know that they aren't good for everything. 30,000file/hr * 6 hrs/day * 6 days = 1.08*10^6 files. *Many* more, if the simulations run for weeks. Hierarchical structures are much better at storing such data than RDBMSs. (I don't know how MySQL stor

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 02:34:59PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: > After solving the problem in the immediate consider telling the developer of > that simulation software to use a database! Err... I guess you meant: "tell the developer of the application to use a zip archive, as it allows random acce

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
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, summa

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
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

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Shachar Or
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

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/20/08 05:50, Mag Gam wrote: David: Do you have some sort of script to manage this? I am a little hesitate to give professors mkfs and mount sudo access. Is there a way around this? In that case, go back to Owen Townend's suggestion. On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PR

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Mag Gam
David: Do you have some sort of script to manage this? I am a little hesitate to give professors mkfs and mount sudo access. Is there a way around this? On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WOW! > > Very nice ideas. > > I like the dd idea. What command would I u

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-19 Thread Mag Gam
WOW! Very nice ideas. I like the dd idea. What command would I use for that? Also, the files are coming from NFS; how can I help this? Any ideas for this? On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:24 PM, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-19 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 My approach: mak

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-19 Thread John Hasler
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Re: interface for tar

2008-08-19 Thread Owen Townend
2008/8/20 Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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