[olug] Filesystem Compression

[Daniel Linder]

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Ok, it's bad for to quote yourself, but I just Googled for "reiser
filesystem compression" and this is a Slashdot link I found:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=116038&cid=9824658

The answer from Hans Reiser (developer of the ReiserFS) is:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=116038&cid=9825758
"Reiser4 has a compression plugin coming. We got gzip to work, but it
consumes too much cpu, so now we are doing lzo which can compress at disk
drive speed. The lzo plugin has a bug, maybe next week...."

So, since this was posted July 28 2004, you might want to check out the
Reiser Filesystem page at http://www.namesys.com/.

Since your compressed filesystem is actually a backup device, then you
might not feel too bad going with the RieserFS while waiting for RH EL to
include it with their distribution.  (Or is it?)

Dan

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