Messages in this thread | | | From | (Massimiliano GHILARDI) | Subject | Compressed device driver? | Date | 28 Nov 1996 17:30:26 GMT |
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I was intersted in a compressed filesystem for Linux and I found this:
> Begin3 > Title: double: on-the-fly disk compression driver for Linux > Version: 0.4l > Entered-date: 21APR95 > Description: block driver for on-the-fly, filesystem independent, disk > compression, with patches for Linux 1.2.5, and utilities > Keywords: disk compression, double, Linux > Author: jmv@achaz.saclay.cea.fr (Jean-Marc Verbavatz) > Maintained-by: jmv@achaz.saclay.cea.fr (Jean-Marc Verbavatz) > Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/kernel/patches/diskdrives > 85057 double-0.4l1.tar.gz > 707 double-0.4l.lsm > Alternate-site: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/ALPHA/double > Platform: Linux 1.2.5 > Copying-policy: Freely Restributable, Copyright by Jean-Marc Verbavatz > End
It is very old, and adapting it to kernel 2.0.xx seems quite time-consuming (at least for me), but I'd really like to use it with the 2.0.xx kernels.
Is anyone working on it? Is anyone insterested in it?
Massimiliano Ghilardi
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