From: slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller) Subject: Re: Staker like file system Date: 25 Aug 1992 19:38:34 GMT
> Compressed file-system: don't you have big problems with page-alignment,
> a page on disk cannot possibly resemble a page in core! Alignment of all but
> the first page read-in is lost too!
> How do you page?
I happen to use DR-DOS 6.0 with Superstor (it's similar to stacker), and
you - at least in the case of Windows - wouldn't swap or page to a
compressed device. Superstor (and I imagine Stacker to be similar) allows
you to create a separate uncompressed portion - addressed as a separate
drive letter. That is where you put the swap files (the permanent Windows
swap file, in this case).
Other than that, it should be transparent. It does slow down the fs a bit,
but it should be (under linux) faster than uncompressed DOS file system
even with a cache!! :)
For me particularly, compressed filesystems are a real blessing - they
saved me the need to go out and get a bigger hard drive. OTOH, it seems
that I need a bigger one now to run linux and my DOS stuff. :(