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Re: Compression through e2compr

On 30 Jan 1997, Daniel Quinlan wrote:

> Christoph <debian@waterf.org> writes:
> 
> > Found kernel level compression and decompression at
> > 
> > http://netspace.net.au/~reiter/e2compr.html
> > 
> > I would be willing to put that into debian to get finally rid of all the
> > compression problems. Is there any support for this endeavour?
> 
> Cool.  It would be great to have this as an option for Debian.
> 
> However, since disk is so cheap (relative to other PC hardware
> components), I would only have it as an option.  (I would never
> personally use it and I suspect some other people may feel the same
> way.)

I see 2 problems with this:

1/ I don't like the idea very much to have a "custom debian kernel".
Imagine a user recompiles his kernel himself; How will he access /usr/doc 
then?

2/ This patch applies compression to a whole filesystem, not a single 
directory. and I don't like the idea of making a special /usr/doc 
partition because I don't want to see all my system compressed.
Also Remy Card told this compression feature should be available on a per 
directory base for 2.2.

trying to be positive and suppose I want to use this option:

1/ I'll have to make a new /usr/doc partition, 'cos I don't want my /usr/bin
to be compressed (my computer is slow enough)

2/ I'll have to insert this compression patch in every 2.1 kernel I use.
(BTW, what happen if one day it doesn't patch anymore?)

3/ Will not bring me more than 10Mo of free space. (1% of my disk space)

Given these restrictions, I doubt many users will be interested.



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