Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757458AbXEQU6s (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 16:58:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754417AbXEQU6j (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 16:58:39 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:40682 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754136AbXEQU6i (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 16:58:38 -0400 Message-ID: <464CC209.4060500@cs.helsinki.fi> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 23:58:49 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "=?UTF-8?B?SsO2cm4gRW5nZWw=?=" CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, Albert Cahalan , Thomas Gleixner , Jan Engelhardt , Evgeniy Polyakov , Greg KH , Ingo Oeser Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three References: <20070515151919.GA32510@lazybastard.org> <20070516122603.GE5472@lazybastard.org> <84144f020705160536i189f6206sffc964a145177da7@mail.gmail.com> <20070516132035.GJ5472@lazybastard.org> In-Reply-To: <20070516132035.GJ5472@lazybastard.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 730 Lines: 15 Jörn Engel wrote: > Compressing random data will actually enlarge it. If that happens I > simply store the verbatim uncompressed data instead and mark it as such. > > There is also demand for a user-controlled bit in the inode to disable > compression completely. All those .jpg, .mpg, .mp3, etc. just waste > time by trying and failing to compress them. So any sane way to enable compression is on per-inode basis which makes me still wonder why you need per-object compression. - 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/