Re: Compression Plugin

[michael chang <thenewme91@gmail.com>]

On 9/20/05, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> An interesting idea:  select the algo and a range of compression
> levels per file, but select the actual compression level at flush time
> based on some estimate of how loaded the system is.. :)
> Probably not worth it even though the amount of compression and the
> speed differ greatly from -1 to -9... I hope no one wastes their time
> on it until the more important things are done.. but perhaps a nice
> touch.

Kinda makes it sound like in addition to the "repacker" that repacks
blocks in order and squeezes them, (which should allow for filesystem
size reduction), there'll be a compression repacker too that allows
you to repack files to a higher or lower compression level (anyone
remember the Compression Agent that came with DoubleSpace and the like
in Windows 9x?).

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~Mike
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