Re: Selective Compression/Encryption

Diego Calleja
2008-12-09T23:05:12Z

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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