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SubjectRe: Transparent compression in the FS
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.
>
>

Nikita.
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