From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263466AbTJOPwc (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:52:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263467AbTJOPwb (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:52:31 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:54913 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263466AbTJOPwa (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:52:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:54:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Nikita Danilov cc: Erik Mouw , Josh Litherland , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Transparent compression in the FS In-Reply-To: <16269.23199.833564.163986@laputa.namesys.com> Message-ID: References: <1066163449.4286.4.camel@Borogove> <20031015133305.GF24799@bitwizard.nl> <16269.20654.201680.390284@laputa.namesys.com> <20031015142738.GG24799@bitwizard.nl> <16269.23199.833564.163986@laputa.namesys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Nikita Danilov wrote: > Erik Mouw writes: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:50:38PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote: > > > Erik Mouw writes: > > > > Nowadays disks are so incredibly cheap, that transparent compression > > > > support is not realy worth it anymore (IMHO). > > > [SNIPPED...] > > > > PS: let me guess: among other things, reiser4 comes with transparent > > compression? ;-) > > Yes, it will. > EeeeeeK! A single bad sector could prevent an entire database from being uncompressed! You may want to re-think that idea before you commit a lot of time to it. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.