On 11/5/2018 11:53 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 11:28:49 -0500, "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" said:
Also, it's probably worth noting that BTRFS doesn't need to decompress
the entire file to read or write blocks in the middle, it splits the
file into 128k blocks and
On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 11:28:49 -0500, "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" said:
> Also, it's probably worth noting that BTRFS doesn't need to decompress
> the entire file to read or write blocks in the middle, it splits the
> file into 128k blocks and compresses each of those independent of the
> others, so it
On 11/5/2018 11:14 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 11:07:12 -0500, "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" said:
Performance isn't _too_ bad for the BTRFS case though (I've actually
tested this before), just make sure you disable direct I/O mode on the
loop device, otherwise you run the
On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 11:07:12 -0500, "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" said:
> Performance isn't _too_ bad for the BTRFS case though (I've actually
> tested this before), just make sure you disable direct I/O mode on the
> loop device, otherwise you run the risk of data corruption.
Did you test that for
On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:31:46 +0530, Pintu Agarwal said:
> I wanted to have a swapfile (64MB to 256MB) on my system.
> But I wanted the data to be compressed and stored on the disk in my swapfile.
> [Similar to zram, but compressed data should be moved to disk, instead of
> RAM].
What platform
On 11/5/2018 10:58 AM, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 08:31:46PM +0530, Pintu Agarwal wrote:
Hi,
I have one requirement:
I wanted to have a swapfile (64MB to 256MB) on my system.
But I wanted the data to be compressed and stored on the disk in my swapfile.
[Similar to zram, but
Hi,
I have one requirement:
I wanted to have a swapfile (64MB to 256MB) on my system.
But I wanted the data to be compressed and stored on the disk in my swapfile.
[Similar to zram, but compressed data should be moved to disk, instead of RAM].
Note: I wanted to optimize RAM space, so performance
