Re: Using compression before encryption in device-mapper

["Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>]

On Wed, 14 April 2004 08:54:56 +0200, Guillaume Lacôte wrote:
> Le Mardi 13 Avril 2004 19:45, Jörn Engel a écrit :
> 
> Thank you, I didn't know about Jffs2; however I believe it is not an 
> implemendation at the device level as I would like.

Correct.

> Since space efficiency is _not_ my aim I plan to forcibly allocate 3 physical 
> blocks for every 2 "compressed" blocks (as it should (?) always fit with a 
> dynamic Huffman encoding).
> 
> [...]
>
> Oops ! I thought it was possible to guarantee with the Huffman encoding (which
> is more basic than Lempev-Zif) that the compressed data use no more than 1 
> bit for every byte (i.e. 12,5% more space).

Makes sense, although I'd like to see the proof first.  Shouldn't be
too hard to do.

> > Performance should not be a big issue, as encryption is a performance
> > killer anyway.
> I am not sure that this is good news ;)

Is it news? ;)

> > Again, depends on the user.  But from experience, there are plenty of
> > users who want something like this.
> Unfortunately I failed to find substantial code/documentation on encryption 
> plugin for Reiser4, for example. Do you know about some ?

My interest in reiserfs has ceised some time ago.  Have you asked
their list? <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

Jörn

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