[olug] Filesystem Compression

[Daniel Linder]

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Andrew Embury wrote:
> I'm running RedHat EL ES 3.  Stability is the #1 concern.

<quote who="Phil Brutsche">
> IIRC the only patch available is called e2compr for ext2 file systems.
> It was a big deal in the 2.0.x and 2.2.x days, and I think it got
> updated for 2.4.x kernels, but the stability of the patch is a really
> big question (according to the mailing list, don't even think about it
> if you have an SMP system), especially considering how heavily patched
> RH 2.4.x kernels are to begin with.

A slight tangent (and definatenly not a *certified stable* solution) but I
believe the latest revision of the Reiser file system has the ability to
have plugable modules that someone just has to write and put on the mount
command line.  The example I have seen was encryption, but compression is
a very close sibling to it.

On the other hand, I haven't played with Reiser very much, let alone the
latest revision so I don't know what it can do out of the box.

Dan

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