Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Transparent compression in the FS | From | Josh Litherland <> | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:45:06 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 09:33, Erik Mouw wrote:
> Nowadays disks are so incredibly cheap, that transparent compression > support is not realy worth it anymore (IMHO).
Well, just a for-instance... my application is for a data recovery company. We have 4 bulk servers with a total of around 2TB of storage, so we're certainly availing ourselves of the low prices of IDE disks. Most of this stuff is just archival; we keep it around as long as possible in case our customers discover a month later that they're missing a file or two. We could probably increase our capacity by a factor of 5 by compressing these volumes, and the performance penalties wouldn't hurt us. Honestly, if this is not a supportable thing, we will probably just elect to incur the overhead of tar -j'ing things after the customer signs off on the job.
I'm leaning on The Management to find and pay someone to support this in ext3, but I don't think that's in the near future, unfortunately.
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