On Friday 22 October 2004 23:39, Danny Sauer wrote:
Greg wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] dynamic compressed read/write filesystems? - cloop-utils.spec (1.4k) inside' on Fri, Oct 22 at 14:12:
Did you ever test the compressed filesystem (cloop) for read / write support, or is it read-only?
Well, since the first result for a google search for "cloop" states that "Cloop is a kernel module to add support for filesystem- independent, transparently decompressed, read-only, block devices", I'm guessing the answer is "no"...
Correct guess. Dag Wieers's rpms? ;) BTW, there is a 9.2 cloop-*.src.rpm now, so my 'hack' is already overhauled. It can be built on 9.1, but one needs to comment out the line 'BuildRequires' in the spec file.
You can already make transparently decompressed read only block devices with cramfs, squashfs, ziosfs, etc.
Looks like I'm still waiting for Reiser4 to actually be stable,
Hmmm, a year or so??? Just a guess.
so the plugin architecture
Yes, this is really interesting! :)
can be used to implement transparent compression 'n decompression.
--Danny, who wants to trust Reiser4, but just can't do that yet
Neither would I. Cheers, Leen