One question comes up when I untar all these huge source distributions:

Can tar files be accessed directly as a kind of filesystems?

I mean source files for a user that likes to compile something are just 
needed for the compile process and are a waste of space after the binaries
are build. The uncompressed source files consume quite a bit of filesystem 
space.
I know the concept of a compressed filesystem from the PC-DOS world but
believe that this is not a bad thing to have also for unix.

Is there a compressed filesystem for unix available? 
So that a compile process just acts inside of a tar file or so. 


Thanks for some sugestions.
 
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