On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 09:44:39PM -0800, Roger Binns wrote: > If you are more interested in the theoretical side then looking into > compression would be interesting. ie how close to the theoretical best > compression are we. Various filesystems like btrfs and NTFS make all > sorts of compromises in algorithm choices but also especially in the size > of blocks they compress. How much better could be done?
I have done some work here, so far it's stalled due to more important work. https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Compression_enhancements Do you have other suggestions beyond what's proposed there? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
