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SubjectRe: File system compression, not at the block layer
On Čt 29-04-04 12:09:42, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Thu, 29 April 2004 11:52:37 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
>
> I don't think nfs is broken because of missing compression, but yes,
> the difference is by design.

Well, scp is easy, scp is linear copy of file. nfs is little more
tricky. I'm not talking about compression, due to various reasons
(UDP?), nfs is not always able to get the wire speed.
Pavel
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