Messages in this thread | | | From | (Steven Ireland) | Subject | Re: Linux-2.1.92 - Feature Freeze | Date | Sat, 04 Apr 1998 10:44:25 GMT |
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On Sat, 4 Apr 1998 02:52:26 -0500, you wrote:
> From: Paul Rusty Russell <Paul.Russell@rustcorp.com.au> > Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 13:31:55 +0930 > > What about ext2 compression? It's been around for ages, it's stable, > and I can't do kernel development without it (I only have a laptop). > > This has come up before, and it seems a popular feature. > >The latest version of ext2 compression (which plays nicely with other >future ext2 extensions) is only a few weeks old at this point, and isn't >quite stable yet. When it gets stable, we can have a negotiation about >whether it goes into 2.2, but with the feature fereze starting, my >guess is that it won't quite make it...
The latest versions of the VM & TCP code is also only a few weeks old at this point and isn't quite stable yet, but will make it into the 2.2 kernel. That argument doesn't cut it for me.
I was quite happy with the VM & TCP performance in 2.0 and earlier 2.1 kernels, because I didn't push them to the limits, but I push disk space to the limits on every machine.
To me, standardised EXT2 compression would be a major gain over 2.0.
Steve Ireland
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