Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264002AbUD2Jr0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:47:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264028AbUD2Jr0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:47:26 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:47308 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264002AbUD2JrY (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:47:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:46:45 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Timothy Miller Cc: Pavel Machek , "Theodore Ts'o" , Miquel van Smoorenburg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File system compression, not at the block layer Message-ID: <20040429094644.GA6098@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <408951CE.3080908@techsource.com> <20040423174146.GB5977@thunk.org> <20040427203426.GB6116@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <409036C4.7030102@techsource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <409036C4.7030102@techsource.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 710 Lines: 21 On Wed, 28 April 2004 18:57:08 -0400, Timothy Miller wrote: > > I've always felt that way, but every time I mention it, people tell me > it's not worth the CPU overhead. For many years, I have felt that there > should be an IP socket type which was inherently compressed. Ever heard of ssh? ;) Depending on speed of network and cpus involved, scp can be faster than nfs. J?rn -- And spam is a useful source of entropy for /dev/random too! -- Jasmine Strong - 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/