RPM filesystem?

[Florin Andrei]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 07:31, Tim Daly wrote:
> a simple question: why unpack RPMS? Clearly Linux itself can be run
> compressed (Live CDs do that now). Given the bottleneck of slow disk
> and fast CPU it might be faster to load the compressed image, unpack
> it, and execute it then it would to load it directly.

Just use a normal compressed filesystem if you're worried by disk usage.

> Yet another 
> feature is that RPMS don't have to explode all over the filesystem
> so upgrading is just a copy operation.

That feature becomes a bug when files belonging to packages need to be
modified as part of normal functioning (see /etc).

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Florin Andrei

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