From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263229AbTJONpK (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:45:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263184AbTJONpK (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:45:10 -0400 Received: from [64.238.111.222] ([64.238.111.222]:20865 "EHLO Borogove") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263229AbTJONpG (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:45:06 -0400 Subject: Re: Transparent compression in the FS From: Josh Litherland Reply-To: josh@temp123.org To: Erik Mouw Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20031015133305.GF24799@bitwizard.nl> References: <1066163449.4286.4.camel@Borogove> <20031015133305.GF24799@bitwizard.nl> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-CzovM2jVl5Z+IDJkk9eC" Message-Id: <1066225505.1740.10.camel@Borogove> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:45:06 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-CzovM2jVl5Z+IDJkk9eC Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 09:33, Erik Mouw wrote: > Nowadays disks are so incredibly cheap, that transparent compression > support is not realy worth it anymore (IMHO). Well, just a for-instance... my application is for a data recovery company. We have 4 bulk servers with a total of around 2TB of storage, so we're certainly availing ourselves of the low prices of IDE disks.=20 Most of this stuff is just archival; we keep it around as long as possible in case our customers discover a month later that they're missing a file or two. We could probably increase our capacity by a factor of 5 by compressing these volumes, and the performance penalties wouldn't hurt us. Honestly, if this is not a supportable thing, we will probably just elect to incur the overhead of tar -j'ing things after the customer signs off on the job. =20 I'm leaning on The Management to find and pay someone to support this in ext3, but I don't think that's in the near future, unfortunately. --=20 Josh Litherland (josh@temp123.org) --=-CzovM2jVl5Z+IDJkk9eC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/jU9hBrTD/Ik9kigRAqGfAJsFnch5t0BExyNziHeX6mSmxOJf+gCcDDCf dogEeWRiCJqQK7d/kvj0QdI= =3pJE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-CzovM2jVl5Z+IDJkk9eC--