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- From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler)
- Subject: Re: [Q] Compressed Filesystem? Interest?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.043023.8068@cs.tulane.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:30:23 GMT
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- >
- >I think that this is way too much code to put in the kernel for backup
- >purposes only. To implement it, you would have to write an anti-compressed
-
- I agree totally. I thing this is going _way_ overboard. A lot of effort
- could be saved (for the programmers and the people doing backups) if a better
- utility for backing up was created.
-
- >(and a .Z or whatever tacked onto the filename). In fact, it might be
- >really trivial to hack an `input compress' option to gnu tar that is
- >compatible with the multi volume system and does not risk total loss at
- >the corruption of a single byte.
-
- That's a great idea. This would be usefull to regular users as well as
- system administrators.
-
- Larry
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