Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:05:35 +0300 | From | Petru Paler <> | Subject | Re: e2compress in kernel 2.4 |
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--On Wednesday, October 03, 2001 10:41:14 +0200 Pierre PEIFFER <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> wrote:
> So, here, we are a little bit confused because we don't know where > to introduce the compression, if we keep the same idea of the 2.2 > design... In fact, on one hand, once the buffers will be compressed, the > pages will also become compressed, but on the other hand, we don't want > the pages to be compressed, because, the pages, once registered and > linked to the inode are supposed to be uncompressed...
Why don't you build it on top of ext3, and do compression right before a transaction commit?
-- Real programmers use chmod +x /dev/random and cross their fingers.
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