Re: [Prex-devel] Compressed ROM file system

[Andrew D. <and...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:10 AM, David Given <dg...@co...> wrote:
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> On 15/06/10 01:16, Kohsuke Ohtani wrote:
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>> This sounds interesting. When I tried to support the direct execution of
>> compressed executable files in an exec server, the standard inflate()
>> routine in zlib required additional 30KB of code. So, I decided to drop
>> this feature before..
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> Okay, I'm still really hazy on how git works, but the patch ought to be
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> http://github.com/davidgiven/prex/commit/e6a1f3b63804afe5fa86c00fc085b885d52626e1
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> I've tested it with x86-nommu and it appears to work fine. Comments, please.

Hi David,

Interesting approach - I had assumed you were implementing this as a
filesystem instead of a compressed block device. Doing this as a block
driver is certainly less invasive.

Andrew