I used to use compressed file systems on DOS - weren't all of these
problems solved back then? aren't there any white papers around?

At any rate there are workable, if not elegent, solutions.

Randall Dow


Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

>Also bear in mind that some application do use lseek(3) -- and seeking 
>to arbitrary byte boundaries is not easy in a compressed file.
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