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

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> I would get a real journal and check for real which is the
> compressibility of the data that is actually there.

On a test machine with a good cross-section of activity documents, I
gzipped all the files in the datastore directory. Only 6% storage
savings according to the gzip stats - higher if I only look at the
metadata files (avg 12%). Several files had negative compression
ratios.

So your suspicions seem correct - compression is a marginal win at
best for ds-backup.

cheers,



m
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