Compressed filesystem for FreeBSD

Paolo Pisati flag at oltrelinux.com
Wed Nov 19 09:32:41 PST 2003


On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:58:44PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031119112108.8405F-100000 at fledge.watson.org>, Rober
> t Watson writes:
> 
> >If your file system is read-only, I wonder if the easier path wouldn't be
> >to implement a compression layer for GEOM.
> 
> Somebody else talked about this concept recently, but I forgot who and
> can't find the email right now...

Present! =)

We talked in pvt emails about this topic, and u told me it would
be simpler to start hacking geom-gate and write a userland implementation
but my 5 minutes trip in geom-gate land didn't help me much... =)

let's see for the future...

-- 
Paolo

Italian FreeBSD User Group: http://www.gufi.org


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