Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Squashfs released (a highly compressed filesystem)

Denis RICHARD
2002-10-30T15:39:53Z

Padraig Brady wrote:

> Jesse Pollard wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:11 pm, Larry McVoy wrote:
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> You can also think of it as a step toward a hierarchical filesystem
>> with the
>> files:
>> 1. uncompressed (with uncompressed inode)
>> 2. compressed on line (real disk space allocated)
>> 3. compressed nearline (only compressed inode on disk, with a
>> reference to offline storage)
>>
>> Obviously this is only for very large filesystems (we have one FS that
>> is currently between 100-200 TB in size when you include the migrated
>> storage).
>
>
> I think it's worth referencing e2compr here also,
> which is a patch that provides transparent compression
> for ext2 (& ext3?). Denis RICHARD (CC'd) is maintaining
> the 2.4 implementation. I've version 0.4.42 (against
> 2.4.16) mirrored here:
> http://www.iol.ie/~padraiga/patches/e2compr-0.4.42-patch-2.4.16.gz

A new version of the patch (0.4.43) is available here :
http://www.alizt.com
But I have not tested the patch on ext3.

>
>
> Note I've used it without problems (to access filesystems
> created with the kernel 2.2 version) here:
> http://cvs.bofh.asn.au/e2compr/
>
> Pádraig.
>
>
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