Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:57:41 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: File system compression, not at the block layer |
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On Fri, 23 April 2004 13:41:47 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > It's been done (see the above URL), but given how cheap disk space has > gotten, and how the speed of CPU has gotten faster much more quickly > than disk access has, many/most people have not be interested in > trading off performance for space.
Also, most diskspace today is filled by data that is already compressed.
Jörn
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