On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:53 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Bort, Paul wrote: > >> Compressed-filesystem extension (like e2compr, and I think either > >> Fat or NTFS) can do that. > >> > >> > > > > Windows (NT/2000/XP) can compress individual directories and files under > > NTFS; new files in a compressed directory are compressed by default. > > > > So if the 'spill-to-disk' all happened in its own specific directory, it > > would be trivial to mark that directory for compression. > > > > I don't know enough Linux/Unix to know if it has similar capabilities.
> Or would want to ... > > I habitually turn off all compression on my Windows boxes, because it's > a performance hit in my experience. Disk is cheap ... Disk storage is cheap. Disk bandwidth or throughput is very expensive. -- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly