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zcache: a compressed page cache

zcache: a compressed page cache

Posted Jul 29, 2010 13:56 UTC (Thu) by edt (subscriber, #842)
Parent article: zcache: a compressed page cache

compcache became ramzswap which then became zram. zram is a compressed block device. It can be used for swap or as a backing store for a filesystem. It does not depend on cleancache. zcache is a second subsystem that reuses some of the code zram uses.


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