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SubjectRe: partially encrypted filesystem
In message <3FCF7AD5.4050501@lougher.demon.co.uk>, Phillip Lougher writes:
> Jörn Engel wrote:
> >
> > So - as sick as it sounds - jffs2 may actually be the fs of choice
> > when doing encryption, even though working on a hard drive and not
> > flash. Cool. :)
> >
>
> Considering that Jffs2 is the only writeable compressed filesystem, yes.
[...]

Part of our stackable f/s project (FiST) includes a Gzipfs stackable
compression f/s. There was a paper on it in Usenix 2001 and there's code in
the latest fistgen package. See
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/fist/

Performance of Gzipfs is another matter, esp. for writes in the middle of
files. :-)

Cheers,
Erez.
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