Re: File system compression, not at the block layer

[Pavel Machek]

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
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