Re: Compressed Filesystem

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On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 20:45 +0100, Roland wrote:
> >I agree that adding more options will add more complexity but it seems
> > the same amount of work in kernel space will have to be done
> 
> regarding lzo compression itself - it`s already there(since july 2007).
> the in-kernel lzo is equivalent to minilzo. 
> (http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/)

The compression code initially used the kernel lzo modules.  Even though
the zlib api is clunky and strange, it is actually a better fit to the
multi-page compressions that need to be done by btrfs.  So adding LZO
support would require some work to compress over multiple pages at a
time.

-chris


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