From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael chang Subject: Re: Compression Plugin Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:51:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <433017C1.4050408@gmail.com> <43307E49.8060404@slaphack.com> Reply-To: thenewme91@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gmaxwell@gmail.com Cc: David Masover , Clay Barnes , reiserfs-list@namesys.com On 9/20/05, Gregory Maxwell 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?). --=20 ~Mike - Just my two cents - No man is an island, and no man is unable.