Re: About on the fly compression/decompression of ext2 files
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:34:38PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Thierry Laronde <thierry@cri74.org> wrote:
>
> > Has anybody some experience with the possibility of using compressed files
> > on the fly with ext2 or iso9660 ?
>
> If it's readonly, why not try cramfs?
If it's the same principle (whole fs is not compressed, so the size of the
fs on the media is the size in memory) but individual files may be
decompressed on the fly allowing running the installation even on very small
memory machines, perhaps something I can give a look.
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