Am 14.08.2012 19:42, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > Am Dienstag, 14. August 2012, 13:21:35 schrieb Jason Weisberger: >> Sure, but wouldn't compression make write operations slower? And isn't he >> looking for performance? > > not really. As long as the CPU can compress faster than the disk can write > stuff. > > More interessting: is btrfs trying to be smart - only compressing > compressible > stuff? >
It does do that, but letting btrfs check if the files are already compressed, if you know, that they are compressed, is a waste of cpu cycles :)
