Re: [Zero-install-devel] Thoughts on 0Install

[Ian C. <ia...@lo...>]

Joachim Kupke wrote:
> Thomas Leonard:
> 
>>What would be fun would be creating a largish file on a Windows partition
>>(eg C:\cache.dat) and mount it over loopback as the Zero-Install cache.
>>Then you'd have a system that booted from CD, but loaded most of the
>>software from disk / the net.
> 
> Is there any reason why you could not use a FAT based file system
> itself? Some characters in file names may be forbidden, but apart from
> that issue, only regular files and directories would have to be stored,
> and it would probably be better not to have to repartition.

I could be mistaken, but I don't believe the cache.dat proposal would 
require any repartitioning.  This, of course, assumes that cache.dat can 
be allocated from contiguous space, and that it doesn't get reallocated 
(I think, I don't know much about filesystems).

Ian.