From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yoanis Gil Delgado Subject: Re: creating live virtual files by concatenation Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:52:38 -0500 Message-ID: <44035886.4070306@uh.cu> References: <1271316508.20060225153749@dns.toxicfilms.tv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Maciej Soltysiak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>Now let us say I am creating sort of a virtual text file (code.js) >>that is a live-concatenation of these files: >># concatenate tooltip.js banner.js foo.js code.js >> >>Note I am not talking about the cat(1) utility. I am thinking of >>code.js be always a live concatenated version of these three, so when >>I modify one file, the live-version is also modified. >> >>What puprose I might have? Network-related. Say, I have an HTML file >>that includes these three files in its code. >> >> >> >Try FUSE. > > Yes that's the best solution. Email me if you have a question about how to accomplish this. Here at our school we have created a fuse filesystem that "glues" files in a single one. > > >>If I had a live-concatenated file, I could reference it in the HTML file >>so that the browser does not have to download three files but just one. >> >>This would surely reduce network overhead of downloading the same amount >>of data but within just one connection, reduce resource usage on the client >>and possibly (depending on implementation) reduce the cost of accessing >>three individual files on the server. >> >> >> >Have you ever heard of persistent connections with HTTP/1.1? > > >Jan Engelhardt > >