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From: Petru Paler <ppetru@ppetru.net>
To: Pierre PEIFFER <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2compress in kernel 2.4
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:05:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46620000.1002099935@shiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BBACF29.7BB980C4@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr>
In-Reply-To: <3BBACF29.7BB980C4@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr>



--On Wednesday, October 03, 2001 10:41:14 +0200 Pierre PEIFFER 
<pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> wrote:

>     So, here, we are a little bit confused because we don't know where
> to introduce the compression, if we keep the same idea of the 2.2
> design... In fact, on one hand, once the buffers will be compressed, the
> pages will also become compressed, but on the other hand, we don't want
> the pages to be compressed, because, the pages, once registered and
> linked to the inode are supposed to be uncompressed...

Why don't you build it on top of ext3, and do compression right before a 
transaction commit?

--
Real programmers use chmod +x /dev/random and cross their fingers.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-03  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-03  8:41 e2compress in kernel 2.4 Pierre PEIFFER
2001-10-03  9:05 ` Petru Paler [this message]
2001-10-03 12:25 ` Padraig Brady
2001-10-03 13:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-16 12:54   ` Padraig Brady

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