High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The compressed loopback device or cloop is a module for the Linux kernel. It adds support for transparently decompressed, read-only block devices. It is not a compressed file system in itself. It was originally written for the Levanta Bootable Business Card by Rusty Russell, but is now maintained by Klaus Knopper, the author of Knoppix. cloop is mostly used as a convenient way to compress conventional file systems onto Live CDs. A compression ratio of about 2.5:1 is common for software. The Knoppix cloop image, for example, is 700MB compressed and around 1.8GB uncompressed.

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