Re: 2.4 Features

From: Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 10:47:32 EST


>>>>> "Theodore" == Theodore Y Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Well, my suggestion would be to try to figure out if you have enough
> information to deprecate some compression methods *before* e2compr gets
> folded into the kernel. That makes life so much simpler for all

An alternative is to use strings instead of 5bit integers to specify
the compression method. More specifically, I'd see a small integer
for each file (could even be smaller than 5bit) that would be an index
into a file-system-global table mapping those ints to a string
(method name).

        Stefan

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