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- From: slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Staker like file system
- Summary: swapping should work on a compressed fs
- Message-ID: <681@svcs1.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 19:38:34 GMT
- References: <1992Aug22.223110.21426@news.Hawaii.Edu> <2735@nlsun1.oracle.nl>
- Organization: Silicon Valley Computer Society, Sunnyvale, CA
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- > Compressed file-system: don't you have big problems with page-alignment,
- > a page on disk cannot possibly resemble a page in core! Alignment of all but
- > the first page read-in is lost too!
- > How do you page?
-
- I happen to use DR-DOS 6.0 with Superstor (it's similar to stacker), and
- you - at least in the case of Windows - wouldn't swap or page to a
- compressed device. Superstor (and I imagine Stacker to be similar) allows
- you to create a separate uncompressed portion - addressed as a separate
- drive letter. That is where you put the swap files (the permanent Windows
- swap file, in this case).
-
- Other than that, it should be transparent. It does slow down the fs a bit,
- but it should be (under linux) faster than uncompressed DOS file system
- even with a cache!! :)
-
- For me particularly, compressed filesystems are a real blessing - they
- saved me the need to go out and get a bigger hard drive. OTOH, it seems
- that I need a bigger one now to run linux and my DOS stuff. :(
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