Compressed partition or block device?

Tue Jul 10 15:34:33 UTC 2012

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 09:21:58PM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> reminds me of the old "doublespace" days...

Yep.  Doublespace/Drivespace, Stacker, etc.

They all had issues with fragmentation because they compressed clusters,j
and then stored those in the host FAT filesystem by trying to pack
multiple compressed clusters into one cluster.

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Len Sorensen
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