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On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:48, Sascha Lucas wrote: |
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> what is the status of transparent compression in a linux filesystem |
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> (read/write)? wikipedia[1] says jfs has one. Is this true? I don't think |
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> so. Hans Reiser proclaimed to have a reiser4 compression plugin before |
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> 2.6.1[4-5]. Where is it? Has someone tried extz[2]? chattr(1) tells me to |
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> set the (c) attribute. But this seems not to work: writing 100MB /dev/zero |
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> to a --------c---- ./test file on a 100MB partion results in disk full. |
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I will speak to what I know, which is the reiser4 part of the story. There |
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will be no repacker/resizer or any other modules for the fs until it gets |
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merged into the kernel. During the process of getting reiser4 into mainline |
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many things about the implementation are changing so it is probably |
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impossible to write the compression or encryption modules until it gets |
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merged. |
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I don't consider it a lacking feature, just a nice checkbox to be able to |
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check. If we get transparent compression in the filesystems (that you can |
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toggle on and off) then that will be great news to marketers. It also could |
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be good news to embedded people if the compression isn't too processor |
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intensive. |
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