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From: act9m@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (Alan Chih-Chang Tai)
Subject: DoubleSpace for UFS?
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As a class project, my team is considering implemeting an on-the-fly
disk compression for the Unix File System.  My questions are:
1) how feasible is this?
2) has this been done before?
3) would this involve mucking around with the kernel?
Thanks.


Alan
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Alan Tai (act9m@virginia.edu) | Computer Science Dept  | Computer Networks Lab
Graduate Teaching Assistant   | University of Virginia |