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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Squashfs released (a highly compressed filesystem)
From:       Jesse Pollard <pollard () admin ! navo ! hpc ! mil>
Date:       2002-10-30 14:53:09
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On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:11 pm, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > A r/w compressed filesystem would be darned useful too :)
>
> mmap(2) is, err, hard.  Not impossible, it means the file system has to
> support both compressed and uncompressed files, but it's interesting.

You can also think of it as a step toward a hierarchical filesystem with the
files:
	1. uncompressed (with uncompressed inode)
	2. compressed on line (real disk space allocated)
	3. compressed nearline (only compressed inode on disk, with a
	reference to offline storage)

Obviously this is only for very large filesystems (we have one FS that
is currently between 100-200 TB in size when you include the migrated
storage).
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