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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FileSystem-level compression
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 23:28:33 -0700
Organization: Me
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Michael Hohmuth 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.)
ftp://ftp.cs.ucla/edu/pub/ficus/heidemann_thesis.ps.gz
] Also, it would be nice if papers (and other documentation) describing
] aspects of BSD kernel internals would be available on www.freebsd.org.
They are in the source tree. They are probably on your machine:
/usr/share/doc/papers
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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