From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: [RFC] Per-file compression Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:54:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20150421165408.GC31102@thunk.org> References: <55318733.4000503@cyngn.com> <20150418145828.GA13809@eden.sea.cyngn.com> <55327324.3030400@nod.at> <20150420145357.GA10981@boyd> <55352E77.4080100@nod.at> <20150421151811.GJ3238@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Richard Weinberger , Tyler Hicks , Tom Marshall , linux-fsdevel , Dhaval Giani To: Jeff Moyer Return-path: Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:50688 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755352AbbDUQyM (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:54:12 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:37:53AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > "Theodore Ts'o" writes: > > > I've sketched this design out a few times, hoping to interest someone > > into implementing it for ext4, but this is the sort of thing that > > could be implemented as a library, and then easily spliced into > > mulitple file systems. > > For those not aware, this was discussed previously on lkml: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1531567 Thanks for reminding me about this; I had forgotten the Mozzila folks had been working on this. I'm not sure what happened to that effort, since as I recall they never came back with a revised patch set. My apologies if that was because they were waiting for something from me, but I maybe Dhaval can let us know if they took this work any further? - Ted