Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:21:40 +0400 | Subject | Re: Transparent compression in the FS |
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Richard B. Johnson writes: > 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.
It could not if block-level compression is used. Which is the only solution, given random-access to file bodies.
> > 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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