Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:22:20 -0600 | | From | Matt Mackall <> | | Subject | Re: CBD Compressed Block Device, New embedded block device |
| |
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 12:46:52AM -0800, Shaun Savage wrote: > HI > > Here is a patch for 2.6.14.5 of CBD > CBD is a compressed block device that is designed to shrink the file > system size to 1/3 the original size. CBD is a block device on a file > system so, it also allows for in-field upgrade of file system. If > necessary is also allows for secure booting, with a GRUB patch.
How does it work? Does it remap one block device and present it as a new one? Or does it work more like loopback? In either case, we might prefer a device mapper plug-in.
Please add a brief write-up under Documentation/, including a general overview and example usage so we can get some idea of what this actually does. Or URLs to existing docs, of course.
-- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |