On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:33 -0400, Lee Trager wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:47:27AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 10:54 -0400, Lee Trager wrote: > > > I have read on the mailing list that there has been some interest in > > > implementing transparent compression on btrfs and I too am thinking about > > > trying to implement it. Before I start from scratch I am wondering if > > > anyone else has started to work on this and if so how far along have > > > they gotten? I would be happy to work on this alone or with someone else > > > but currently I am doing some preliminary research. > > > > Compression is working on my machine, I'm just running some long tests > > before I push it out to the unstable repo. The current code uses the > > in-kernel zlib implementation. > > > > -chris > > > > Thats great I am eager to try it. How long will these tests take? I > would love to look at the code. Is compression done for every file by > default or does a user space program have to set a compression flag on > the file?
This is a fairly large change, I plan on running it overnight. Compression is optional and off by default (mount -o compress to enable it). When enabled, every file is compressed. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
