How to store files and data when memory and storage are limited?

[Yann Desmarais <yanndesmarais%yahoo.com@localhost>]

Hi all,

To store the root filesytem on NetBSD machines with
limited memory and small storage devices (typically
flash memories), it is very useful to use compressed
filesystems that only expand necessary data into
memory (instead of a complete memory filesystem).
Linux provides the cramfs filesystem for instance.
Does someone know of an equivalent implementation on
NetBSD (writing on the file system is not necessary)?

NetBSD seems to support the NTFS file system, which
can do automatic compression. Can this type of
filesystem be used to spare memory and storage room ?

I also read articles about RAM compression
(compressing instead of swapping). Does someone know
of existing work under NetBSD?

Yann


        
                
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