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From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: "Lee Trager" <lt73@cs.drexel.edu>
Cc: Christian Hesse <mail@earthworm.de>,
	miguel.filipe@gmail.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Selective Compression/Encryption
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:05:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081210000512.7be20413@diego-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081209180951.GA6551@tux64-03>

El Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:09:51 -0500, "Lee Trager" <lt73@cs.drexel.edu> es=
cribi=C3=B3:

> It does seem that doing it with volumes would limit user control and =
add
> lots of complexity to such a simple task.

IMHO, WRT compression it's the contrary. Compression on a per-file basi=
s has
never been very succesful (just look at how many windows users use it)
because it implies taking a decision for every file on the system. OTOH=
,
volume-level is just a single option to be enabled.

I'm of course not arguing that file-level compression shouldn't be poss=
ible,
im just saying that is way more difficult to administer and that most p=
eople
(including sysadmins) is most likely to use compression in a per-volume=
 basis.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-09 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-09 14:59 Selective Compression/Encryption Lee Trager
2008-12-09 15:45 ` Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe
     [not found]   ` <200812091722.21567.mail@earthworm.de>
2008-12-09 18:09     ` Lee Trager
2008-12-09 22:14       ` Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe
     [not found]         ` <1228863790.8130.14.camel@mattos-laptop>
2008-12-10 12:11           ` Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe
2008-12-09 23:05       ` Diego Calleja [this message]
2008-12-09 23:50         ` jim owens
2008-12-10  0:03           ` calin
2008-12-10 13:44           ` Chris Mason
2008-12-10 17:55             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-10 18:02               ` Linda Knippers
2008-12-10 18:11             ` Joshua J. Berry
2008-12-10  9:06         ` Mattos, Oliver
2008-12-10  9:32   ` Jeremy Sanders
2008-12-10 12:19     ` Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe
2008-12-09 16:35 ` Chris Mason
2008-12-09 18:14   ` Lee Trager
2008-12-09 19:26   ` Joshua J. Berry
2008-12-09 20:22     ` jim owens
2008-12-10 13:45       ` Chris Mason
2008-12-10 14:33         ` btrfs with selinux jim owens
2008-12-11 22:03       ` Selective Compression/Encryption Lee Trager
2008-12-12 14:19         ` Chris Mason

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