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From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
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Subject: compressing intermediate files with LZO on the fly
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 14:32:34 +0300
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Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> ... for some usages (temporary space),
> light compression can increase speed. For instance, when processing logs,
> I get better speed by compressing intermediate files with LZO on the fly.

How can you do that on ext3?

Also, can you do that on a partition block-io level?


Thanks!

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Al