From: Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Re: New feature for the filesystems. What do you think ? Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 01:53:36 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux: 13-Apr-93 Re: New feature for the
fil.. HJ Lu@eecs.wsu.edu (463)
>I am wondering how a compressed filesystem handles demand paging and
>random update.
I had just posted wondering about demand-paging, but came up with an
idea. Have it uncompress the file, and put it on some temporarily
allocated inodes, and exec/demand page it from there. It would require
some changing of filesystem allocation/exec/demand paging routines I
gather, but should be feasible.