Re: [RFB] add LZ4 compression method to btrfs

2012-02-16 Thread Hugo Chevrain
You're right about the broken links, my bad. The first link related to a few statements by Mark Ruijter, copy/pasted below : I just looked into it and it appears to be promising. On average the speeds appear to be 48% faster then snappy. This is amazing since snappy has proved to be 30%

Re: [RFB] add LZ4 compression method to btrfs

2012-02-14 Thread Hugo Chevrain
Are you sure about these figures ? the difference seems too large. It's almost unbelievable. -- You should not, Mark Ruijter found the same for LessFS (http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/? p=688) and there is also such finding into an Hadoop thread

Re: Updated btrfs/crypto snappy interface ready for merging

2012-01-24 Thread Hugo Chevrain
evergreen writes: Although there is LessFS's Mark Ruijter : http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?p=684cpage=1#comment-3114 On average the speeds appear to be 48% faster then snappy. Sounds promising... -- Well, it seems that the performance is really good. Apparently, LZ4 has displaced