Hello Szabolcs (I hope I got the first name right ... :-o ;-) thanks for the reply!!! I'm forwarding your mail upwards (from my sight) for discussion. *t
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Tomas Pospisek ML wrote: >> Being able to write compressed files would make life a lot easier at my >> current contract. >> >> Is anybody planing to work on this in the near future? > > I'm not aware of. > >> How hard in terms of amount of time would it be to implement the feature? > > It could be done lighting fast, high quality and extremely cheeply. You can > choose any two of them :-) > > To be more serious, it's not very trivial. To do it reliably, it's really > not trivial. A robust implementation could take from a few weeks to a few > months. > >> More specifically: if the time saved would exeed the time needed to >> develop the feature I could maybe obtain some funding. > > Good thinking. Sponsorship could definitely speedup development and it's > the fastest way to get something done. > >> So - is there anybody interested to implement "writing compressed >> files"? > > Sure. For about five years, because no major and popular Linux file > system supports this yet. There are two main benefits: saved space and > (potentially much) faster I/O. First I commented this issue in 2003: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/old/2003-q3/msg11371.html > > "To be faster, one must [...] do less I/O (file/tail packing, > compression, etc) and/or optimise seek times." > > Much later reiser4 implemented transparent compression and the results are > indeed enthralling (please ignore the one year old, obsolete, beta ntfs-3g > results): > > http://linuxhelp.150m.com/resources/fs-benchmarks.htm > > Transparent compression isn't implemented yet in NTFS-3G because > > - there was no significant interest > - we do have lots of requests for other things > - nobody volunteered > - nobody sponsored development > > Regards, > Szaka > > -- > NTFS-3G: http://ntfs-3g.org > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek http://sourcepole.com - Linux & Open Source Solutions ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
