Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264173AbUDWS3z (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:29:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264900AbUDWS3z (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:29:55 -0400 Received: from mtvcafw.sgi.com ([192.48.171.6]:22150 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264173AbUDWS3y (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:29:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:34:35 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Timothy Miller Cc: tytso@mit.edu, miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File system compression, not at the block layer Message-Id: <20040423113435.245f918a.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <40895CFF.6010307@techsource.com> References: <408951CE.3080908@techsource.com> <20040423174146.GB5977@thunk.org> <40895CFF.6010307@techsource.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 704 Lines: 16 > SO... in addition to the brilliance of AS, is there anything else that > can be done (using compression or something else) which could aid in > reducing seek time? Buy more disks and only use a small portion of each for all but the most infrequently accessed data. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373 - 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/