On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Markus Illenseer wrote:

> > [ We can have uncompressed sources on CD-ROM by creating filesystem  ]
> > [ images of one sort or another and mounting them from the CD        ]
> 
>  Now thats a nice and constructive idea. I'll try out to create a partition
> with sources only, dd-ed it and create a vnd-device for further use.
> That's faster than a tar-filesystem.

Warning.  The FFS format is not portable between machines of differing
byte-orders.

-J