> Server side compression. Latest server systems have four, six (AMD/Intel) or > eight (SUN Niagara 2) cores per processor. So a 2-4 processor system could > have until 32 cores. A single Intel 2.33 GHz quadcore processor can compress > data by software with about 60 MB/s (gzip, fastest compression, about 16 > MB/s per compression thread). So a AMD/Intel four processor quadcore system > can compress about 240 MB/s. A modern compression card (zlib compatible) can > archive 500 MB/s (compress and decompress). So many harddisk storage can be > saved. > For me I am still waiting for this to happen on the file system level and when I want it to happen. I mean after the backup jobs are done I can trigger a cron job to set some attributes on the files causing them to compress. Windows has had this ability with ntfs for a very long time and I was amazed that linux did not do that but missing this feature does not stop me from using linux for all the departments 15TB+ raid storage.
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