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From: glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Compressing file system ?
Date: 9 Aug 1993 18:25:41 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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Its nice to see all this talk about a compressed file system, but perhaps the
more important question is has anyone actually attempted to implement any
sort of compressed file system besides tcx?

What would be really nice is a file system like stacker..transparent, fast,
and small..


-Greg Tanaka