Oesf Forum Archive, ..squashfs mountable on Z Options

[speculatrix]

I used a program http://www.httrack.com/ to take a snapshot of the entire forum's in lofi format. I spidered the site at a slow speed and bandwidth so as to neither kill the forum nor my ADSL line!

I created a squashfs file system (I had to use an old version of mksquashfs to make it compatible with cacko), which you can store on your memory card and loopback mount on either the Z or a linux box (and probably OSX), e.g.:

CODE

   mkdir /mnt/oesfforlofi
   mount -t squashfs -o loop /mnt/card/oesfforlofi.squashfs /mnt/oesfforlofi
-or-
   mount -t squashfs -o loop /mnt/card/oesfforlofi.squashfs.nmz /mnt/oesfforlofi

or add to /etc/fstab:

CODE

  /mnt/card/oesfforlofi.squashfs /mnt/oesfforlofi squashfs loop,noauto,noatime,ro 0 0

There are two versions of the squashfs archive, one with and one without the .nmz suffix. The latter has a free-text search function using Namazu .

Please download it from Antikz's mirror at
oesfforlofi.squashfs.nmz -with search, 64MB or oesfforlofi.squashfs without search, 32MB; original files at my downloads


--edit again 20061130
Added nmz details with Antikz's kind mirroring

I originally used cramfs but couldn't mount the archive on my linux/x86 box, so I tried squashfs and that worked on both and was quite a bit smaller than a zipfile; must use squashfs v2 as v3 is incompatible with Cacko's v2.

[Jon_J]

I got it open in Opera, it took awhile to open.
There is a problem with the large number of files in the archive.
When I was copying this archive from my windows box to my Z thru USB, the last file would not copy.
"lofiscreen.css"
I got an error saying this file or directory cannot be created.
I can copy this file to this directory if I move another file out of this directory.
I have my choice of which one of 2 files to leave out.
"lofiscreen.css" or "lofiprint.css"
I placed lofiprint.css" in one directory above the /lofiversion/ directory and copied "lofiscreen.css" to /lofiversion/ directory.
This is on my vfat formatted /hdd3

I just clicked on the General forum and it's taking a very long time (in Opera) to open, about 45 secs. screenshot below.

800 posts

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[speculatrix]

I got it open in Opera, it took awhile to open.
There is a problem with the large number of files in the archive.
When I was copying this archive from my windows box to my Z thru USB, the last file would not copy.
"lofiscreen.css"
I got an error saying this file or directory cannot be created.
I can copy this file to this directory if I move another file out of this directory.
I have my choice of which one of 2 files to leave out.
"lofiscreen.css" or "lofiprint.css"
I placed lofiprint.css" in one directory above the /lofiversion/ directory and copied "lofiscreen.css" to /lofiversion/ directory.
This is on my vfat formatted /hdd3

I just clicked on the General forum and it's taking a very long time (in Opera) to open, about 45 secs.

800 posts

I'll have a go soon at making a cramfs or squashfs form of it as soon as I can. It'll still be 60+MB, as it probably won't be any more or less efficient than a zip file.

I also had a problem with lofiscreen.css when I first captured the files on windows onto local disk, it would let the two .css files coexist. It wasn't until I moved the files to my fileserver for uploading to web site when I was able to put the two .css files into the main directory and then zip it up. It seems then that there is something odd in windows!

the only free text database that springs to mind for linux is "glimpse": http://webglimpse.net/