Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264192AbUD0Pj1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:39:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264184AbUD0Pj0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:39:26 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:1546 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264194AbUD0PiN (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:38:13 -0400 Message-ID: <408E7F53.5010602@techsource.com> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:42:11 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Jackson CC: root@chaos.analogic.com, joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu, tytso@mit.edu, miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File system compression, not at the block layer References: <20040423163420.43f55a90.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040423163420.43f55a90.pj@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 449 Lines: 16 Paul Jackson wrote: > > To heck with disk compression - it's time for main memory compression. > I think nVidia and ATI chips do that with the Z buffer. Definately improves bandwidth utilization. - 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/