Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:15:50 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Squashfs released (a highly compressed filesystem) |
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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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