From: hodgen@infko.uni-koblenz.de Subject: Re: Stacker like file system Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:56:27 GMT
In article <1992Aug25.115520.5073@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>>Actually, if you don't care about bmap support, I'd guess performance
>>wasn't too bad. But not having bmap support does mean that you cannot
>>swap to it or run executables, so it's good mainly as a storage
>>filesystem.
>
>Actually, a storage filesystem would be quite good enough, at least for
>many things. Examples: /usr/man, /usr/emacs/info, /usr/lib/cvs,
>/usr/doc, /usr/include, /usr/spool/news.
>
I'd love to see something like this. I work with raytracers etc a lot and have
at the moment 113 1.4MB image files. I'd like to calculate the pics a bit
bigger but I don't have the space. These are TGA format images and I once
compressed them with ARJ to get them home. They (84 pics) went from 117.6 MB to
14.3 MB. I have obtained similar results from Stacker but had to get rid of it
for various DOS compatibility reasons. Once I get 0.97 Linux (I'm waiting for
a tape to arrive) I'll compile everything for Linux and do my work there.
Having a /usr/compressed/pics directory with on-the-fly compression would be
a dream come true.
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