Subject: Re: Compressed vnd handling tested successfully
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/13/2005 12:23:45
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 02:17:39AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>  * find someone who'll feel confident to commit the kernel code

IMHO all the kernel changes need  to be conditionalized on some kernel
option. There are lots of vnd users out there, most of which never will use
this format.

Anyone ever looked at creating an uncompressing overlay filesystem, so that
you could store all files as bzip2 -9 encoded on an arbitrary filesystem
(e.g. iso9660), but without the .bz2 suffix, and read them uncompressed
throught the fs mounted on top of it?

Martin