Hi there, Providing compression and/or encryption at the file system layer has proven to be contentious and polemic, at least in the linux kernel world. However, I would like to probe you guys (specially Chis Mason) about your thoughts on the issue. I have seen quite a few benchs were compression provides better performance, since it reduces the amount of IO. It seems to be a cpu/io trade-off. And given that cpu power is more easily accessible than fast IO.. it is starting to look a good idea that should be more deeply explored. Is compression for data on BTRFS a feature that is: - completely out of the table - it will not happen at the BTRFS layer - considered, but no efforts on developing this feature are planed. - considered, and design decisions are contemplating it.. but no code yet.. not this soon. (not for 1.0) Kind regards! -- Miguel Sousa Filipe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
