Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264895AbUDWR6V (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:58:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264893AbUDWR6V (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:58:21 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:61380 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264895AbUDWR6R (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:58:17 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:57:41 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Miquel van Smoorenburg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File system compression, not at the block layer Message-ID: <20040423175741.GB29705@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <408951CE.3080908@techsource.com> <20040423174146.GB5977@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040423174146.GB5977@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 20 On Fri, 23 April 2004 13:41:47 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > It's been done (see the above URL), but given how cheap disk space has > gotten, and how the speed of CPU has gotten faster much more quickly > than disk access has, many/most people have not be interested in > trading off performance for space. Also, most diskspace today is filled by data that is already compressed. J?rn -- Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Sturgeon's Law - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/