Hello,
Has anybody some experience with the possibility of using compressed files
on the fly with ext2 or iso9660 ?
Files compressed individually will take, in general I think, more space than
a whole file system compressed (initrd at boot time typically).
But, for machines with not a great amount of memory, I imagine that a fs
composed of _individually_ compressed files will allow the decompression on
the fly, thus the use of the heap (dynamic allocation) for _each file_
individually accessed (memory used being freed after use).
Then the footprint on the memory will be smaller.
Has anybody some hints about that ?
Cheers,
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