Compressed partition or block device?

[William Muriithi]

On 10 July 2012 11:34, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
http://video.linux.com/videos/btrfs-filesystem-status-and-new-features

Not a solution for what was originally asked but somehow related and
you may find it very interesting.

William
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