From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Roger Binns <rogerb@rogerbinns.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:12:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140122121220.GF6498@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lbid3r$1ui$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 09:44:39PM -0800, Roger Binns wrote:
> If you are more interested in the theoretical side then looking into
> compression would be interesting. ie how close to the theoretical best
> compression are we. Various filesystems like btrfs and NTFS make all
> sorts of compromises in algorithm choices but also especially in the size
> of blocks they compress. How much better could be done?
I have done some work here, so far it's stalled due to more important
work.
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Compression_enhancements
Do you have other suggestions beyond what's proposed there?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-16 19:23 Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis Toggenburger Lukas
2014-01-17 15:34 ` David Sterba
2014-01-17 16:04 ` Tomasz Torcz
2014-01-18 12:50 ` Toggenburger Lukas
2014-01-22 12:05 ` David Sterba
2014-01-22 13:35 ` Hugo Mills
2014-01-20 5:44 ` Roger Binns
2014-01-22 12:12 ` David Sterba [this message]
2014-01-22 20:55 ` Roger Binns
2014-01-23 18:36 ` David Sterba
2014-01-23 21:47 ` Roger Binns
2014-01-20 12:20 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-01-21 6:42 ` Sandy McArthur
2014-01-21 12:25 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-01-21 16:52 ` Hugo Mills
2014-01-21 16:59 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-01-22 12:20 ` David Sterba
2014-01-22 12:24 ` David Sterba
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