Re: [OT?]Re: partially encrypted filesystem

[Phillip Lougher]

Charles Manning wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:44, phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Or maybe 'not in(to)-place' :-) I don't think I was saying compression is
> > difficult, it is not difficult if you've designed the filesystem correctly.
>
>
> Effectively saying that a fs that can't easily support compression is badly 
> designed is a dangerous over-simplfication/generalisation/slur. 

Apologies all round to anyone who feels offended.  What I meant to say 
is compression is not that difficult if you design the filesystem from 
the outset with compression in mind - retro fitting compression to an 
existing filesystem, however, can be very difficult (especially 
compressed metadata), and that's why it's not a good idea.

The concept that all well designed filesystems should easily support 
compression is wrong, and I didn't intend to imply that.

Phillip

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