Re: About on the fly compression/decompression of ext2 files

2001-03-23 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:34:38PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anybody some experience with the possibility of using compressed files > > on the fly with ext2 or iso9660 ? > > If it's readonly, why not try cramfs? If it's the same principle (w

Re: About on the fly compression/decompression of ext2 files

2001-03-23 Thread Herbert Xu
Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anybody some experience with the possibility of using compressed files > on the fly with ext2 or iso9660 ? If it's readonly, why not try cramfs? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROT

About on the fly compression/decompression of ext2 files

2001-03-23 Thread Thierry Laronde
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 amo