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From: Redeeman <redeeman@redeeman.linux.dk>
Subject: Re: Can compression at filesystem level improve overall
	performance?
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:29:51 +0100
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On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:25, Erik Terpstra wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> For the last couple of years I noticed that the performance of most of 
> my systems has it's bottleneck in data throughput rather than CPU 
> performance.
> 
> Is it fair to say that today compression at the filesystem level would 
> improve overall performance?
> 
> If this is the case, it probably wouldn't be too hard to implement as a 
> module in Reiser4?
> 
> Any thoughts?
the more agressive you compress it the more cpu it takes, and that will
make it slower, but i think a small compression algorithm for filesystem
purpose could be written... however, i doubt it will be worth it,
harddrives are really cheap nowadays.. but maybe some algortihm to
compress cleartext only, or something..


> 
> --Erik.
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Regards, Redeeman
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