From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 12:58:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA02607 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:58:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA02602 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:58:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA05743; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:49:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602272049.NAA05743@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: OK, so what would YOU like to see on that second CD? To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:49:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: jfieber@indiana.edu, jerry@border.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199602271753.SAA03920@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Feb 27, 96 06:53:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Yes. You can't compile compressed source code. Its the source code that > > I don't want to waste precious hard drive space with. > > A call for compressed file systems... I have some example file compression code for the Heidemann framework; John has asked that I not redistribute it. It would be trivial to implement block compression at the device export layer in the devie framework I suggested previously. This is similar to how DriveSpace3 on Win95 exports file systems on hosted drives. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.