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From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl (Arjan van de Ven)
To: sandy@storm.ca (Sandy Harris)
Subject: Re: [PATCH][CFT] per-process namespaces for Linux
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In article <3A99569F.98C64B29@storm.ca> you wrote:

> A better approach might be to find or invent a generic compressed file system.
> Given that, you just build a compressed root, copy an image of it into ramdisk
> and let the compressed FS driver handle it from there. I suspect such a driver
> might be useful elsewhere as well. Does one exist?

cramfs is compressed but read-only, jffs has the potential to do compressed
writes as well....

Greetings,
    Arjan van de Ven
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