Re: [PLUG] cdrom business cards -- compression ?

["Tracy Nelson" <tnelson@fast.net>]

----Original Message-----
From: Jason Costomiris <jcostom@jasons.org>
To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Date: Monday, April 03, 2000 14:16
Subject: Re: [PLUG] cdrom business cards -- compression ?


|On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 12:10:12PM -0400, Darxus wrote:
|: Transparent compression for ext2 filesystem, which has apparently been
|: usable since 1997, but is still not distributed with the kernel (you have
|: to patch it).
|
|Interesting..  Wonder what the performance impact is..


You'll probably see a slight improvement, but I doubt if it'll be enough to
justify the time it'll take to compress the drive.  If you've got a speedy
processor (500MHz+) and a big disk block size you'll do better, of course.
Especially if you're using an IDE controller.


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