[olug] Filesystem Compression

[Andrew Embury]

I did check the Reiser4 homepage and noticed the plugins mentioned, but no
compression plugin was mentioned.  Thanks for the slashdot article, I'll
keep an eye out for this.

Drew

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Daniel Linder wrote:

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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
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> 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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