From: tange@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Tange) Subject: Re: Compressed FS for Linux Date: 29 Jul 1993 09:57:06 GMT
Thus spake fuer@nessie.gud.siemens.co.at (Gerhard Fuernkranz):
>(wpwood@darkwing.austin.ibm.com) wrote:
>: the performance difference should be (I know I'm gonna get a lot of people
>: disagreeing here) just about unnoticeable. I used Stacker for quite a
>: while after my disk started to fill and I noticed very little difference
>: (all the mags say about 5%). Hopefully a compressed filesystem for Linux
>: can come somewhat close to that.
>There are compression algorithms available, that are quite fast. I
>have tested LZRW1-A (freely available somewhere) and got a compression
>speed of 1..2 MB/sec on a 486/33 notebook without 2nd level cache.
>But I am not sure, wheter LZRW can be used - I believe it is covered
>by a patent ...
IMHO, gzip -1 would be just grand for most purposes and that is not covered by
any patent (is it?).
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