Re: [PATCH 0/5] btrfs: Add lzo compression support

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Chris Mason wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 03:11:22PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
>> Lzo is a much faster compression algorithm than gzib, so would allow
>> more users to enable transparent compression, and some users can
>> choose from compression ratio and compression speed.
> 
> This is also much smaller than I expected, really nice.  It looks like
> older kernels won't properly deal (nicely give EIO) with lzo compressed
> files?
> 
> We can add compatbits to deal with that if it is the case.
> 

I forgot compatibility issue with older kernels..

Though I didn't test older kernels, I don't think they can deal with lzo
compressed files properly, at least not for inlined extents, in which
case I think btrfs will just show compressed data to the users.

So yes, an incompat flag is needed.
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