Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:34:27 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: File system compression, not at the block layer |
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Hi!
> > >Well, why not do the compression at the highest layer? > > >[...] doing it transparently and for all files. > > > > http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/ > > 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. As a result, there are race
Is CPU_speed / disk_throughput increasing? If so, compression might help once again. CPU_speed / net_throughput probably is increasing, so compressedNFS would probably make sense. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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