Re: File system compression, not at the block layer

[Jörn Engel]

On Thu, 29 April 2004 11:52:37 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > Ever heard of ssh? ;)
> 
> Its too high level, and if you want compression but not encryption
> that's tricky to do.
> 
> > Depending on speed of network and cpus involved, scp can be faster
> > than nfs.
> 
> Well... but that's due to nfs being broken, right?

I don't think nfs is broken because of missing compression, but yes,
the difference is by design.

Jörn

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