Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 10:45:59 -0600 From: awd@ddg.com (Andrew W. Donoho) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Sparse" files? Message-ID: <v02110100ab80e8a9426c@[199.183.109.228]>
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Jordan, You wrote: >But as Bruce also points out, our block size of 8K also makes this >kind of compression scheme much less likely to be effective. OTOH, it is a good size for allocation block compression. It is the same size that Stacker uses in LZS (I should know, I ported the compression algorithm from DOS to Mac and PowerMac). If this is an interesting addition to FreeBSD and it does not already exist, I am willing to work with a file system guru to implement an unencumbered compression scheme for the *BSD world. Andrew ----- awd@ddg.com - Donoho Design Group, Inc. awd@gslis.utexas.edu - UT Grad. School of Library and Information Science
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