On 5/12/06, plougher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Richard Fish write: > From what I can tell, there are no really good compressing filesystems available currently. I would disagree, Squashfs is an advanced read-only compressing filesystem,
I should have said read-write filesystem. What I would really like to see is something like reiser4's plugin scheme brought up to the VFS layer in the kernel, so that any filesystem could gain transparent compression. I have no use for compression on backup disks, since I use programs that support compression internally. But I would love to be able to compress my normal filesystems /, /var, and /usr/portage. Being a laptop user, I could actually get more speed from those volumes if they were compressed, depending upon the algorithm used. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
