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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:47:03 +0200
From:      "Julian Stacey" <jhs@jhs.muc.de>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF rtld and environment variables... 
Message-ID:  <200007271247.MAA02788@park.jhs.no_domain>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:30:57 %2B1000." <20000727083057.A73044@gurney.reilly.home> 

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"Andrew Reilly" wrote:
> Well, even if there are/were folk who want tiny disk footprints,
> and crunching everything isn't going to do the whole job, wouldn't
> a compressed filesystem be a better way to approach this?  At least
> that way you'd still be able to page from the executable(s), and
> all of the on-disk data would bennefit too.

I would have used a compressing file system if it had existed,
just as today I'd use an encrypting file system on my new laptop,
but such file system don't exist on FreeBSD unfortunately.

Nice ideas to add to a web page of project ideas for students &
other contributors.  When I was a student, friends were keen to find 
project ideas more inspiring than those on lists drawn up by the lecturers.

Julian
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Julian Stacey	http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/
Munich Unix Consultant.		Free BSD Unix with 3200 packages & sources.


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