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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!not-for-mail From: hohmuth@irs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FileSystem-level compression Date: 17 May 1996 17:29:10 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4ni606$pqc@irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de> References: <4ng47j$3gu@plains.nodak.edu> <319BCC36.518459A8@lambert.org> Reply-To: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de NNTP-Posting-Host: irs.inf.tu-dresden.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <319BCC36.518459A8@lambert.org>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > 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). Where exactly at ftp.cs.ucla.edu? (I looked around, but couldn't find it there.) Also, it would be nice if papers (and other documentation) describing aspects of BSD kernel internals would be available on www.freebsd.org. Michael -- Email: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de WWW: http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~mh1/