[olug] Filesystem Compression

[Andrew Embury]

The response I got from Reiser:

>So, the only detail I can provide is that "soon" is not "next week", esp
>taking into account
>you need a stable release  ;)

I'll just run uncompressed.  Hopefully something will become available in
the next 6-12 months.

Thanks for all the help.

Drew


On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, William Langford wrote:

> e2comp or whatever it was ... has been mentioned. I ran it a few times
> with pretty good success.  Gotta be careful of sectors that decide to
> die/corrupt tho...
>
> long time ago, during the 2.0 series, i remember a 'block device'
> compressor. it wasn't neccessarily a file system compression setup, but
> it's primary use was as one.
>
> it might have been googled/altavista/hotbot'd as 'doublespace for linux'
> or something, i don't recall... been many a year :).  Anyhoo, it's
> strength was that since it worked on block devices rather than being
> tied to a particular file system.. it could compress... anything.
>
> Dunno if it still exists.
>
> Best bet is to wait for the LZO/Reiserfs module. Probably loads more stable.
>
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