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From: mtaylor@max.cybernet.com (Mark Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Compressed filesystem?
Date: 13 Mar 1994 20:25:01 GMT
Organization: Cybernet Systems
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Is there any work being done on implementing a compressed filesystem for *BSD? 
Does any standard compressed filesystem exist?

I'd hate to see a feature of MS-DOG that didn't exist in *BSD as well.  And just
reading about AIX's Jornaling Filesytstem capability to increase its
partition size dynamically (if I read it right) makes me salivate.

BTW- is there any support for AFS in FreeBSD?  I have heard of an NFS shim that SGI has which
takes care of mapping AFS calls to NFS calls.


-Mark Taylor
mtaylor@cybernet.com
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