Re: testing compression in reiserfs4.1

[Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>]

mangoo@interia.pl wrote:

>I was long looking for a Linux filesystem that would support r/w transparent compression.
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>jffs2 is stable, but is dedicated to flash devices mainly, and hence the maximum size of this filesystem is 4 GB.
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>ext2 + compression patches does not work with 2.6 kernels, has no journaling (it's ext2, after all), and is not considered stable (which doesn't bother me that much for my purposes).
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>IBM's jfs supports compression, but not under Linux.
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>And there is (will be) reiserfs4.1, which will at last have compression support?
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>Is it to be released anytime soon?
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>If not, where can I get 4.1 sources and how can I patch my kernel with the current, most up-to-date reiserfs4.1-alpha-don't-use version?
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>Features I need is compression, hardlinks and read/write (of course) - is the current state OK to test it on a /mnt/test partition with non-critical data?
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Hello, it looks mostly stable, but currently there is no human interface 
to create such
files. Also it would be fine to make it a bit smart: there is a lot of 
incompressible files
so flush algorithm should know when compression should be switched off.
We are working on it now, wait for beta-release.

Thanks,
Edward.

>Tomek
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