Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:42:04 +0100 (MET) | From | Tycho Fruru <> | Subject | Re: announce: ext2 compression patch |
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On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Bradley L Schatz wrote:
> Subject: announce: ext2 compression patch > > The pointer below is to a set of ALPHA drivers that implement on the fly > gzip decompression in the ext2 fs. I havent done work on this for ~2 > months, but maybe people will find it useful. [snip] > Read the details at > > http://www.plpk.uq.oz.au:8001/~brad/extz.html > I don't know if it's still up-to-date with the latest and greatest of kernels but Antoine Dumesnil de Maricourt already wrote a compressed ext2 filesystem, which is (as far as i know :) totally transparent.
More info at: http://www.etca.fr/Users/Antoine%20de%20Maricourt/english/e2compress.html
Hope this helps... ---- fruru@cs.kuleuven.ac.be http://ruby.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/~fpmip
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