On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Gary Winiger wrote: >> Also, I need to make it clear in the documentation that >> compressed lofi images can be read-only and not read/write. > > This seems to me to be a change from the original > proposal. Have I missed something, or has the proposal > changed?
It was a case of me having missed specifying this in the case materials. Basically, this case provides "offline" compression if you will; compressing a file and mapping that file via lofi are two separate steps. If we were to provide read/write access to compressed files, we'd essentially have to provide on-the-fly compression. There doesn't seem to be a need to provide such a facility. Alok
