[Server-devel] RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net
Mon Nov 10 11:17:34 EST 2008


On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  - Right now, the jffs2 fs can outstore the backup storage on highly
> compressible content. Not a good look, and leading to all sorts of bad
> scenarios.

I would get a real journal and check for real which is the
compressibility of the data that is actually there.

My uninformed guess is that most of the content is already compressed:
png, zip, pdf (some/most), odt, ogg, etc

Regards,

Tomeu


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