Re: gcloop: compressed loopback support for 2.6

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

> >On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:15:24AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> >>gcloop isn't file format compatible with the old cloop-0.68 fileformat 
> >>since I had to use in a different way the index and I prefer ucl instead 
> >>of zlib.

> Mike Fedyk wrote:
> >Maybe you can merge ucl into cloop 2.x, and support both (one compression

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:39:14AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> >scheme per image, of course) in the same codebase?
> gcloop supports arbitrary compressor you just have to make the cryptoapi 
> module of it, 

That's good.

> and obviously change the userspace tools, the only 

Hmm, so I presume that gcloop has its own userspace utilities...

> restraint is the file format, the changes I made are due the need to 
> avoid high penality on uncompressible blocks

Interesting.

> , with some effort I can 
> make the parser support all the formats (gcloop, cloop-0.68, 
> cloop-1.0/2.0) but would enlarge the code a bit or make it slower.

It would be good to have all of these competing formats handled, dicesions
on which format(s) should be used for future versions before it's integrated
into mainline.

> >
> >Has cloop been ported to 2.6?
> >
> not that I know.

Boooo, bad knoppix! ;)