Has Anybody looked up dmsdosfs? It is a linux filesystem driver that can access quite a few different compressed dos filesystems like drivespace and doublespace. Perhaps an implementation could be derived from its source code.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Imre, > > > > Well, I think that a seperate partition with a compressed file > > system and a block driver would be the best option. > > I agree about the block driver, but I believe a file would be more > flexible than a partition. Once you compress a partition, you would > otherwise have to shrink it to make use of the gain. This would > need partition table modifications... Too much work for a simple > system :-). What I had in mind was more something like: Compress > a partition or ramdisk in-place, then copy the result to a file > and format the partition or ramdisk again, to get an uncompressed > filesystem again. You can store the compressed filesystem file on > that partition or at another place then :-). > > > > At the time doublespace/stacker were released, people were not > > intended to have many partitions on there drive. > > > But with linux requiring a multiple of partitions, it is proven > > that people would lower there standards and settle for multiple > > partitions anyway. > > Linux does not need multiple partitions. You can have everything > on one partition and you can even use a swapfile instead of a > swap partition. Yet I personally recently recommended a scheme > of "root, dos, swap, usr, home" to a friend, because his BIOS > could only boot from the first 8 GB of his 160 GB disk, so it > made sense to put the first 3 partitions in that area (swap is > useful for some hibernate schemes, possibly using the BIOS). > > > This would be the fastest, most straight forward way of doing it. > > As often with computers, there are many ways, also many good ones :-). > > Eric > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
