Re: Transparent compression in the FS

[Ingo Oeser]

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 15:33, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:30:50PM -0400, Josh Litherland wrote:
> > Are there any filesystems which implement the transparent compression
> > attribute ?  (chattr +c)
>
> Nowadays disks are so incredibly cheap, that transparent compression
> support is not realy worth it anymore (IMHO).

But disk bandwidth is still a problem and compression helps out here.


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