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diff --git a/filesystems/fuse-lzofs/DESCR b/filesystems/fuse-lzofs/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..fe56c45324f --- /dev/null +++ b/filesystems/fuse-lzofs/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +LZOlayer Filesystem is a filesystem which allows you to use transparently +compressed files, just as they would be normal files. + +Both read and write operations are possible, along with other most common +system calls. It consumes little memory in my opinion, because files are +divided into blocks, which can be decompressed separetly. In other words, +if you (or an application) would like to read byte 4,500,000 in a file +sized 5,000,000 bytes, it only decompresses a block which constain wanted +data. Write operation is based on a packet gathering and after reaching its +limit it 'syncs' the data. It allows it's user to write/modify files pretty +fast, despite the fact it's block divided. + +LZOlayer FileSystem was meant to support only LZO compression algorythm, +because it has extremely low compression/decompression time. However, +currently it supports LZO and ZLIB (but only one at the run-time!) +compression algorythms. |