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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>,
	Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Squashfs released (a highly compressed filesystem)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:11:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021029201110.A29661@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DBF5A08.9090407@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:03:20PM -0500

> A r/w compressed filesystem would be darned useful too :)

mmap(2) is, err, hard.  Not impossible, it means the file system has to 
support both compressed and uncompressed files, but it's interesting.
-- 
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-30  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-30  2:29 ANNOUNCEMENT: Squashfs released (a highly compressed filesystem) Phillip Lougher
2002-10-30  3:10 ` Samuel Flory
2002-10-30  3:51   ` Phillip Lougher
2002-10-30  4:03     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30  4:11       ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2002-10-30  4:15         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30 14:53         ` Jesse Pollard
2002-10-30 15:10           ` Padraig Brady
2002-10-30 15:42             ` Denis RICHARD
2002-10-31 16:18               ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-10-30 23:56       ` Phillip Lougher
2002-11-01 15:57         ` Rob Landley
2002-11-02  8:57           ` Phillip Lougher
2002-10-30  6:28     ` Ingo Oeser
2002-10-31  4:08       ` Phillip Lougher
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-30 14:17 Matthew Wilcox
2002-10-31  5:12 Phillip Lougher

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