From: barspi@wam.umd.edu (Barzilai Spinak) Subject: Re: Unix fs compression (was Re: one-file-per-newsgroup) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 04:35:33 GMT
In article <7LJrrAhDBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> David.Keegel@apana.org.au writes:
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>>Of course, if you use something like Stacker or DoubleDisk for MSDOS, or
>>DCF/2 or Stacker for OS/2 (when available), this argument and effort becomes
>>moot. Physically, the files are stored together as one larger file when
>>you use one of these packages. To the application, they appear as they did,
>>only you don't waste the allocation space at all (not to mention compression
>>benefits). One day, all decent filesystems will include compression.
>
>>Why bother to reinvent the wheel, you should develop an on-the-fly compression
>>engine for your Unix filesystem instead.
>
>Has anyone done or looked at doing this for Linux? I know a guy that did
>some research (incl implementation) on compressed file systems; I might
>see if I can get him to copyleft it and let me port it to Linux (if I can
>find time; probably in a few weeks).
When I first started to get into Linux, about 3 months ago, I remember
people discussing about compression. I think that there were some problems
with it, something with paging, I don't know because at the time I didn't know
very much about Linux and all that stuff. Can anybody tell what the problem
was, or if I'm dead wrong?
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