Re: ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-24 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Besides: you can do this in userspace with existing e2compr. Should take > > less than 2 days to implement. > > ok > never seen that... e2compr is suite of patches to do online compression. It is pretty mature. You should take a look; turning online compression into offline is pretty

Re: ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-24 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Besides: you can do this in userspace with existing e2compr. Should take less than 2 days to implement. ok never seen that... e2compr is suite of patches to do online compression. It is pretty mature. You should take a look; turning online compression into offline is pretty trivial.

Re: ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-23 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> > - A file is saved to disk > > - If the file isn't touched (read or written to) within days > > (default 14), the file is compressed. > > - If the file isn't compressed more than percent (default 20), the > > file is flagged "can't compress". > > - All file compression is done on low traffic

Re: ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-23 Thread Anders K. Pedersen
Pavel Machek wrote: > > - A file is saved to disk > > - If the file isn't touched (read or written to) within days > > (default 14), the file is compressed. > > - If the file isn't compressed more than percent (default 20), the > > file is flagged "can't compress". > > - All file compression is

Re: ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-23 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > - A file is saved to disk > - If the file isn't touched (read or written to) within days > (default 14), the file is compressed. > - If the file isn't compressed more than percent (default 20), the > file is flagged "can't compress". > - All file compression is done on low traffic times

Re: ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-23 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! - A file is saved to disk - If the file isn't touched (read or written to) within n days (default 14), the file is compressed. - If the file isn't compressed more than n percent (default 20), the file is flagged "can't compress". - All file compression is done on low traffic times

Re: ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-23 Thread Anders K. Pedersen
Pavel Machek wrote: - A file is saved to disk - If the file isn't touched (read or written to) within n days (default 14), the file is compressed. - If the file isn't compressed more than n percent (default 20), the file is flagged "can't compress". - All file compression is done on

Re: ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-23 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- A file is saved to disk - If the file isn't touched (read or written to) within n days (default 14), the file is compressed. - If the file isn't compressed more than n percent (default 20), the file is flagged "can't compress". - All file compression is done on low traffic times

Re: ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-21 Thread Jorge Nerin
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > Hi > > With some years of practice with Novell NetWare, I've been wandering why > the (unused?) file system compression mechanism in ext2 is based on > doing realtime compression. To make compression efficient, it can't be > made this simple. Let's look at the

Re: ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-21 Thread Jorge Nerin
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Hi With some years of practice with Novell NetWare, I've been wandering why the (unused?) file system compression mechanism in ext2 is based on doing realtime compression. To make compression efficient, it can't be made this simple. Let's look at the type of

ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-20 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi With some years of practice with Novell NetWare, I've been wandering why the (unused?) file system compression mechanism in ext2 is based on doing realtime compression. To make compression efficient, it can't be made this simple. Let's look at the type of volume (file system) compression

ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-20 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi With some years of practice with Novell NetWare, I've been wandering why the (unused?) file system compression mechanism in ext2 is based on doing realtime compression. To make compression efficient, it can't be made this simple. Let's look at the type of volume (file system) compression