From: papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) Subject: Re: Unix fs compression (was Re: one-file-per-newsgroup) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 16:09:46 GMT
In article <7LJrrAhDBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> David.Keegel@apana.org.au writes:
>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).
Dos does file compression one way, but you should consider if it should be
done a little differently on Unix. Perhaps instead of on-the-fly compression,
it could compress files late, when the hard drive is idle...
a really impressive one could keep a database that tracks usage and size, and
compresses those files that are seldom used but very large the tightest, and
first, and waits till later to compress things like scripts that run often.