ср, 6 янв. 2021 г. в 20:25, Matthias G. Eckermann <[email protected]>:

> On 2021-01-06 T 20:15 +0300 Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
> > > On 2021-01-06 T 18:56 +0300 Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
> > >
> > > Some historic background on the SUSE Linux Enterprise side (from
> > > around 2016): one of the reasons to use btrfs for microSD cards
> > > for SLES on RPi3 was that, combined with compression on the
> > > filesystem level, the number of IOPS needed is reduced, and
> > > booting (and other IO related activities) speeds up, as the cost
> > > of (de)compression is lower than the IO latency.
> >
> > As far as I understand, you have to mount btrfs with `compress'
> > option to force the compression by default.  From what I see in
> > openSUSE JeOS, there is no `compress' in /etc/fstab by default.
>
> Oops, I did not know. The images we are shipping for the Raspberrys
> for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and 15 do have this enabled, and
> it works nicely (and saves some space, ...).
>

You are right. The compression was enabled one year ago. Probably the
system I checked was deployed before that.


>
> So long -
>         MgE
>
>
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> Matthias G. Eckermann,    Director Product Management Linux Platforms
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>


-- 
With best regards,
Matwey V. Kornilov

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