fuse.gunzip is a filesystem for FUSE that provides transparent decompression of files. The goal is to expedite reading of files by reducing both file size and fragmentation. fuse.gunzip is not a real filesystem such as ext2 or ext3. fuse.gunzip is a virtual proxy filesystem. Compressed files appear as uncompressed when read by the kernel or processes through fuse.gunzip. Any type of file can be compressed.
sdelta analyzes two files and outputs the difference. It applies the difference to the first of the original files to construct a bit for bit clone of the second file. It is optimized for use with source tarballs, and also contains sdreq, the client for the Public Patch Repository, PPR. The PPR generates on demand source upgrade and downgrade patches for over a quarter of a million version specific source tarballs. By using sdreq you can acquire new source tarballs from the PPR several times faster and with only 10% of the downloading that you currently do.
Wed Jul 25 11:16:13 MST 2001 binutils-2.11.2 is most current stable? Anyone doing freshmeat releases for binutils?