Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:54:17 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Transparent compression in the FS |
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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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