-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-08-12 at 01:42 -0800, John Andersen wrote: [disk compression]
It was a great technology, but a bit problematic on a high demand setup. You tend to have very few compressed files but the overheads of the compression process being active.
It was also dangerous. I had one client that ran out of disk on Netware and it became a nightmare to salvage data from the machine because there was not enough room to decompress the very large files his business tended to create.
There is another method, which is used by MS on NT partitions. A directory can be marked compressed, and all files in there are compressed always (I think). You can mark for compression only those directories that interests you; for instance, I would mark backup mail folders. The ext2 filesystem was designed to have compression of this sort some time, but it has never been implemented. Pity. True, storage is cheaper nowdays, but compression is even cheaper. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGvuVrtTMYHG2NR9URAiTnAJoDIEe9iTth8xvo2JTp9Qe9VX6wVgCdEqPj Id7iFUHhoFz/Nz/oaObs7HA= =EayW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org