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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!news1.oakland.edu!rcsuna.gmr.com!hobbes.tad.eds.com!maverick.tad.eds.com!usenet.bzn.vlt.eds.com!not-for-mail From: spannrin@olympus.bzn.vlt.eds.com (Craig Spannring) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: DoubleSpace for UFS? Date: 19 Feb 1995 11:32:02 -0700 Organization: Video Lottery Consultants, Bozeman MT. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3i82r2$srh@olympus.bzn.vlt.eds.com> References: <D47HrE.CK7@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <3i5rju$drn@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: olympus.bzn.vlt.eds.com In article <3i5rju$drn@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: >act9m@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (Alan Chih-Chang Tai) wrote: >> As a class project, my team is considering implemeting an on-the-fly >> disk compression for the Unix File System. [snip] >> 3) would this involve mucking around with the kernel? > >Yes. Unless you went the user space route Wouldn't having it in user space break demand paged loading of binary executables? (Not really sure how BSD does virtual memory.) -- =========================================================================== On the planet Vulcan, MSDOS | Craig Spannring --- (406) 585-6655x5104 would be considered illogical. | spannrin@olympus.bzn.vlt.eds.com -------------------------------+-----------------------------------------