On 4/18/08, Winelfred G. Pasamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on the other hand compression MIGHT theoretically speed up access if > you CPU(s) compresses / decompresses faster than your disk writes / > reads.
Yeah. I remember back in the DOS days wherein I/O on some files on a drive compressed with Stacker/DriveSpace/DoubleSpace have faster I/O on an uncompressed drive because the CPU (a 386) does the compression/decompression than the slow hard disk (maybe even the hard disk controller because it was on an ISA bus) at that time. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
