Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:56:38 +0100 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3]: compressed RAM block device |
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On Tue 2009-03-17 17:06:46, Nitin Gupta wrote: > drivers/block/Kconfig | 22 + > drivers/block/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/block/compcache.c | 995 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/block/compcache.h | 160 ++++++++ > 4 files changed, 1178 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > Creates RAM based block device (ramzswap0) which can be used as swap device. > Pages swapped to this are compressed and stored in memory itself. > > The module is called compcache.ko. It depends on: > - xvmalloc.ko: memory allocator > - lzo_compress.ko > - lzo_decompress.ko > > See Documentation/blockdev/compcache.txt for usage details. > > Project home: http://code.google.com/p/compcache/
Compcache is really bad name for this. zramdisk? gzrd?
Is the block device useful for general filesystem storage?
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