"Jay Sprenkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/5/06, Mikey C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What platform are you using? > > > > If you are using NTFS filesystem you can just mark the file for compression > > and the OS takes care of it transparently. > > The linux OS supports Reiser file systems. This will compress > on the fly with the compression being faster than the transfer to disk. > Thus it's actually faster than a non compressing file system. >
I'm guessing that the random I/O behavior of SQLite will frustrate the compression implemented by NTFS and Reiser. The end result will be a database file that might actually take up more space than if it were uncompressed. I'd be interested in hearing about experiments to prove or disprove this conjecture. -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
