Hello Jim, Jim Faulkner wrote (ao): > To contrast, rzip can compress a database dump of this data to > around 7% of its original size. This is an older database dump, > which is why it is smaller. Before: > -rw------- 1 root root 69G 2010-01-15 14:55 mysqlurdbackup.2010-01-15 > and after: > -rw------- 1 root root 5.2G 2010-01-16 05:34 mysqlurdbackup.2010-01-15.rz > > Of course it took 15 hours to compress the data, and btrfs wouldn't > be able to use rzip for compression anyway. The difference between a life MySQL database and a dump of that database is that the dump is text, while the database files are binary. A fair comparison would be to compress the actual database files. With kind regards, Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- 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
