Compressed partition or block device?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Jul 9 21:22:57 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 04:53:55PM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> It is block level compression & deduplication. It can be distributed
> however you please as long as it is not a part of the Linux kernel,
> since that would be considered a derived work.

Distributing as an external module should be OK.  At least a number of
companies are betting on that being the case.

It still isn't what was originally asked for which was:  A block device
level compression that you could put some random filesystem on top of.

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