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From: johnh@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (John Heidemann)
Subject: Re: Compressing file system ?
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Date: 9 Aug 93 21:24:25 GMT
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glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka) writes:
>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?
I believe that Vince Cate of CMU has implemented a compression file
system. The following paper provides a pretty good description and
analyzes the design issues discussed (and not discussed) in this
newsgroup over the last couple of days.
@inproceedings{Cate91,
author = "Vincent Cate and Thomas Gross",
title = "Combining the Concepts of Compression and
Caching for a Two-Level Filesystem",
booktitle = "The Fourth International Conference
on Architectural Support
for Programming Languages
and Operating Systems",
year = 1991,
month = apr,
publisher = "{ACM}",
pages = "200-211",
}
-John Heidemann
UCLA Ficus Project