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To: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
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In message <20040119182955.GA60760@iclub.nsu.ru>, Max Khon writes:
>Hello!
>
>I have seen some requests for read-only compressed fs support recently.
>Last weekend I had a few spare cycles and implemented GEOM class that
>allows to use cloop V2.0 (compressed loopback device for Linux) fs images.
>
>More details, tarballs with geom_ugz and a port for tools needed
>to create/extract compressed fs images are available at
>http://people.freebsd.org/~fjoe/geom_ugz/

I quickly glanced at this: The one thing which stuck in my mind is
that for performance reasons running inflate in the "up" geom path
may be wrong.

Doing CPU intensive stuff in the "up" and "down" paths is generally
a bad idea and should be avoided because it will hold up other
disk-trafic while the CPU chews.  In GBDE I stuck all the crypto
off to a kthread for this reason.

In this case it may be a valid trade-off, I can't tell, just keep
it in mind down the road.

Ohh,

Have I told anyone how positively delighted I am to see
people grow GEOM classes all the places ?

Wheeeeeeee! :->

Poul-Henning

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