Re: Transparent compression in the FS

[Nikita Danilov]

Richard B. Johnson writes:
 > 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.

It could not if block-level compression is used. Which is the only
solution, given random-access to file bodies.

 > 
 > Cheers,
 > Dick Johnson
 > Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
 >             Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
 > 
 > 

Nikita.
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