[gmpi] Re: Reqs draft
- From: Frederic Vanmol <frederic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:05:12 +0100
> 2- tar, jar or zip... still somewhat prone to user tampering, but less so;
> behaves like a regular file to the user, reasonably accessible via
> standard i/o calls or access libs, but less so than a file. Has same
> advantages otherwise as a folder.
>
Doesn't this have one of the disadvantages of dlls/libraries? In order to
access the data, the file will have to be decompressed and this will take
time. Granted it'll be a small file most of the time, but there will
potentially be a lot files (depending on the implementation).
Frederic
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