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SubjectRe: ANNOUNCEMENT: Squashfs released (a highly compressed filesystem)
Larry McVoy wrote:

>>A r/w compressed filesystem would be darned useful too :)
>>
>>
>
>mmap(2) is, err, hard.
>
The underlying filesystem format can make things easier on you... and
given that compressing inevitably requires some amount of data copying,
it's not terribly difficult. I wouldn't claim NTFS is anything close to
well-designed, but supporting compression under Linux on NTFS is at
least feasible and shouldn't require tons of thought. (I've looked at
it when dicking around with NTFS-TNG)

> Not impossible, it means the file system has to
>support both compressed and uncompressed files, but it's interesting.
>
>
well, yeah... ;-)

Jeff



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