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- From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Subject: Re: [Q] Compressed Filesystem? Interest?
- Message-ID: <2B5EB4A9.1B6D@tct.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:35:21 GMT
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- According to joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman):
- >The idea is that the anti-compressed file system would work in tandem
- >with an ordinary file system. For most uses, you would mount the
- >system as, say xfs. But for backup purposes, you would umount the xfs
- >system, and remount >the same disk partition< as xfs-anti-compress.
-
- I think a better idea is to make compress capable of compressing many
- files with one invocation -- producing an output stream that looks
- something like, say, an afio archive, which is then process by tar in
- lieu of reading the actual files -- thus avoiding process-per-file
- overhead and staying out of the kernel.
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
- "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
- want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
- and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
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