Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:29:05 +0200 | From | (Roberto Di Cosmo) | Subject | [isocompr PATCH]: announcing stable port to kernel 2.2.18 |
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Dear mailing list members, you will find at http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~dicosmo/FreeSoftware the first public release of my updates (for 2.2.18) of an old patch (due to Eric Youngdale and Adam J. Richter) to allow the use of transparent compression of files on iso9660 images.
This means you can pack over 1Gb of data on a usual CD. Also, since reading off the CD is actually slower than decompressing data, an overall speed improvement comes as a bonus.
The current version of the patch for 2.2.18 is very stable (we use it for DemoLinux [see www.demolinux.org] heavily), and I wonder if it could not be a good idea to see if this code can be folded into the official releases sometime in the future (I have been looking at 2.4.x code, but the new page cache means some changes might be needed: I will try to post a first version for 2.4.x soon).
Please feel free to use this code (at your own risk), test it and report bugs to dicosmo@pps.jussieu.fr
Since I am not currently subscribed to the kernel mailing list, please contact me directly by e-mail, for any comments.
Sincerely yours
--Roberto Di Cosmo
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