Subject: RE: vnd: improving support for compressed images
To: Dieter Baron <dillo@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
From: De Zeurkous <zeurkous@nichten.info>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/29/2007 14:20:13
Haai,

On Fri, June 29, 2007 14:25, Dieter Baron wrote:
> hi,
>
>[snip]
>> Your method #3 sounds pretty attractive, as it will allow new
>> compression
>> methods to be added easily. I'm not sure it would be significantly
>> slower.
>
>   I was afraid that crossing the kernel <-> user space barrier on each
> request would slow things down considerably.  But yes, it would be
> neat to have that ability, and it is by far the most flexible.
>
>
				yours,
> 					dillo
>