Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:52:37 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: File system compression, not at the block layer |
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Hi!
> > I've always felt that way, but every time I mention it, people tell me > > it's not worth the CPU overhead. For many years, I have felt that there > > should be an IP socket type which was inherently compressed. > > Ever heard of ssh? ;)
Its too high level, and if you want compression but not encryption that's tricky to do.
> Depending on speed of network and cpus involved, scp can be faster > than nfs.
Well... but that's due to nfs being broken, right? Pavel -- 934a471f20d6580d5aad759bf0d97ddc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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