Re: File system compression, not at the block layer

[Timothy Miller]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> > > > Well, why not do the compression at the highest layer?
> > > > [...] doing it transparently and for all files.
> > >
> > > http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > It's been done (see the above URL), but given how cheap disk space has
> > gotten, and how the speed of CPU has gotten faster much more quickly
> > than disk access has, many/most people have not be interested in
> > trading off performance for space.  As a result, there are race
>
>
> Is CPU_speed / disk_throughput increasing? If so, compression
> might help once again. CPU_speed / net_throughput probably is
> increasing, so compressedNFS would probably make sense.


I've always felt that way, but every time I mention it, people tell me 
it's not worth the CPU overhead.  For many years, I have felt that there 
should be an IP socket type which was inherently compressed.

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