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Subject: Re: [plug] compressed linux filesystem?
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From: Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 01:50:17 -0700

Quoting Gerald Timothy Quimpo (gquimpo@sni-inc.com):

> i know this seems perverse, but is there a compressed filesystem
> for linux? i'm on a notebook, space is limited, and i'm doing
> some things which involve pretty large files. and a 30Gig
> notebook drive is not in the works.

They exist, but are obscure and somewhat difficult to track down.

http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/dmsdos/faq.html
http://cclib.nsu.ru/projects/gnudocs/gnudocs/zlibc/zlibc_1.html
http://zlibc.linux.lu/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cramfs/
http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/Constructing%20a%20cramfs%20image
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-00/0058.html
http://cvs.bofh.asn.au/e2compr/
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ (portions concerning JFFS2)
http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/
http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/cloop-utils.html (cloop)
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/ (zisofs)

Good luck. The information on most of those is sparse, and it's obvious
that many are aimed at boot images (and consequently, some are
read-only).

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