Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 16:56:55 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com> To: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: install compressed binary patch Message-ID: <199503150056.QAA23724@netcom19.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 95 14:45:22 PST." <m0rofL8-0003wFC@TFS.COM>
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> we pull a page in from the compressed file... (or even non compressed) > the page get's swapped out.. (obviously NOT to the file..) > therefore there are already two entities being tracked by the kernel.. > I assume we could extend this so that the swap object has the entire > uncompressed version of the file? This will be tricky to get right. On the other hand the user mode solution requires no changes to the kernel and should work on any system that claims to be Unix!
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