cloop support for kernel 2.6

[fdupoux]

Hi,

I would like to compile cloop for Linux-2.6. I made a test with cloop-1.02 for kernel 2.6.0-test5. There was many compilation errors: header files were missing. I used gcc-3.2 with a recent linux system.

Is there a port of cloop for linux-2.6 ?

Thanks advance.

[LinuxBiker]

I've been chasing this same thing for several days now. I managed to get a workable 2.6.0- kernel compiled; I can run it from a HD-based install. (This from a previous Knoppix HD install, with 2.6.0 kernel sources applied).

The same compiler errors are present when I attempt to make cloop.o. I'm using the 2.0 version of cloop-src/utils but have tried it with previous versions as well.

Looking at the entire picture, it seems that a number of changes have been made to blkdev.h in the 2.6.0 kernels...and that may be part of the problem.

[ccwufu]

gcloop
Luca Barbato porting cloop ideas from the 2.4 kernel to 2.6
http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/9/10/203
::What is that stuff::
Those are hacks to the knopper cloop.
He is using zlib that give you a good compression ratio and an average good speed, I use ucl and lzo to get better speed.