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On 5/12/06, plougher <phillip.lougher@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Richard Fish write: |
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> > From what I can tell, there are no really good compressing filesystems |
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> available currently. |
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> I would disagree, Squashfs is an advanced read-only compressing filesystem, |
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I should have said read-write filesystem. |
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What I would really like to see is something like reiser4's plugin |
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scheme brought up to the VFS layer in the kernel, so that any |
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filesystem could gain transparent compression. I have no use for |
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compression on backup disks, since I use programs that support |
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compression internally. But I would love to be able to compress my |
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normal filesystems /, /var, and /usr/portage. Being a laptop user, I |
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could actually get more speed from those volumes if they were |
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compressed, depending upon the algorithm used. |
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-Richard |
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