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SubjectRe: Transparent compression in the FS
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Nikita Danilov wrote:

> Erik Mouw writes:
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:50:38PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> > > Erik Mouw writes:
> > > > Nowadays disks are so incredibly cheap, that transparent compression
> > > > support is not realy worth it anymore (IMHO).
> > >
[SNIPPED...]

> >
> > PS: let me guess: among other things, reiser4 comes with transparent
> > compression? ;-)
>
> Yes, it will.
>

EeeeeeK! A single bad sector could prevent an entire database from
being uncompressed! You may want to re-think that idea before you
commit a lot of time to it.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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