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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!caen!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU!act9m From: act9m@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (Alan Chih-Chang Tai) Subject: DoubleSpace for UFS? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: mamba-fo.cs.virginia.edu Message-ID: <D47HrE.CK7@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 17:26:02 GMT Lines: 12 As a class project, my team is considering implemeting an on-the-fly disk compression for the Unix File System. My questions are: 1) how feasible is this? 2) has this been done before? 3) would this involve mucking around with the kernel? Thanks. Alan --- Alan Tai (act9m@virginia.edu) | Computer Science Dept | Computer Networks Lab Graduate Teaching Assistant | University of Virginia |