From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264056AbTJOS5M (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:57:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264075AbTJOSzo (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:55:44 -0400 Received: from mail.midmaine.com ([66.252.32.202]:48057 "HELO mail.midmaine.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264056AbTJOSys (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:54:48 -0400 To: josh@temp123.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Transparent compression in the FS X-Eric-Conspiracy: There Is No Conspiracy References: <1066163449.4286.4.camel@Borogove> <20031015133305.GF24799@bitwizard.nl> <16269.20654.201680.390284@laputa.namesys.com> <20031015142738.GG24799@bitwizard.nl> <16269.23199.833564.163986@laputa.namesys.com> <20031015160430.GH24799@bitwizard.nl> <1066238667.836.4.camel@Borogove> From: Erik Bourget Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:53:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1066238667.836.4.camel@Borogove> (Josh Litherland's message of "Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:24:27 -0400") Message-ID: <87u16a5o40.fsf@loki.odinnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Josh Litherland writes: > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 12:04, Erik Mouw wrote: > >> FYI: you hardly see compressed files on NTFS. If you do, it's either >> because the user thought it was a fun feature > > -shrug- The windows disk cleanup tool does this by default now if you > let it. It compresses files that have an old access time. Not a bad > idea imo, if perhaps one of limited usefulness. What happens when you go through and do a folder-open on that old directory of pictures that you had, which re-reads them to generate thumbnails? Do they have to be uncompressed-on-disk to be read? Will they stay compressed forever, or be decompressed automatically on access? - Erik Bourget