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Message-ID: <20090320185637.GA1418@ucw.cz> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:56:38 +0100 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3]: compressed RAM block device On Tue 2009-03-17 17:06:46, Nitin Gupta wrote: > drivers/block/Kconfig | 22 + > drivers/block/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/block/compcache.c | 995 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/block/compcache.h | 160 ++++++++ > 4 files changed, 1178 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > Creates RAM based block device (ramzswap0) which can be used as swap device. > Pages swapped to this are compressed and stored in memory itself. > > The module is called compcache.ko. It depends on: > - xvmalloc.ko: memory allocator > - lzo_compress.ko > - lzo_decompress.ko > > See Documentation/blockdev/compcache.txt for usage details. > > Project home: http://code.google.com/p/compcache/ Compcache is really bad name for this. zramdisk? gzrd? Is the block device useful for general filesystem storage? -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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