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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FileSystem-level compression
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 17:45:42 -0700
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Daniel Ortmann wrote:
]
] Is design/coding work currently being done on filesystem-level
] compression similar to XjoepxtOU? (The naughty word is rotated by 1.)
]
] perl -e 'foreach $c(split //,'XjoepxtOU') {print chr(ord($c)-1)}'
]
] This seems like a rather important feature.
Some students in a class at UCLA implemented a file level
compression layer. This layer could be used with an FS in
FreeBSD... including ext2fs.
This is described in John Heidemann's Master's Thesis on
ftp.cs.ucla.edu (which is the design document for the 4.4BSD
VFS FS stacking code).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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