Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2007 23:58:49 +0300 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three |
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Jörn Engel wrote: > Compressing random data will actually enlarge it. If that happens I > simply store the verbatim uncompressed data instead and mark it as such. > > There is also demand for a user-controlled bit in the inode to disable > compression completely. All those .jpg, .mpg, .mp3, etc. just waste > time by trying and failing to compress them.
So any sane way to enable compression is on per-inode basis which makes me still wonder why you need per-object compression. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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