On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]>wrote:

> BTRFS (and other filesystems with compression) attempt to compress an
> initial chunk (64k in btrfs) and disable compression if the size is not
> reduced by some threshold amount.  This is probably a better heuristic
> than guessing based on extensions or trying to compute histograms.


I like this approach.

Ian.

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Ian Clarke
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