On Jul 11, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Alan Altmark wrote:
We are investigating the issues surrounding dump compression and
encryption for the VM environment. It is my hope, though, that the
solution to these problems will be more generally useful.
Hunh. A transparent passthrough compression/encryption facility.
Gee, that sounds like a good idea.
It also sounds *suspiciously similar* to an extant IBM z/VM component.
Admittedly, one that I think should be performed in a CMS app rather
than by a detour through an install-it-yourself Linux guest, but,
well, we're all aware of each others' views on that.
Adam