[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:33:52PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Robert Milkowski wrote:
>>> Now, the good filter could be to use MAGIC numbers within files or
>>> approach btrfs come up with, or maybe even both combined.
>> You are suggesting that
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:33:52PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Robert Milkowski wrote:
> > Now, the good filter could be to use MAGIC numbers within files or
> > approach btrfs come up with, or maybe even both combined.
>
> You are suggesting that ZFS should detect a GIF or
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Robert Milkowski wrote:
>> Maybe that's a good one - so if couple of blocks do not compress then
>> flag it in file metadata and do not try to compress any blocks within
>> the file anymore. Of course for some files it will be suboptimal so
>> maybe a da
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Robert Milkowski wrote:
> Now, the good filter could be to use MAGIC numbers within files or
> approach btrfs come up with, or maybe even both combined.
You are suggesting that ZFS should detect a GIF or JPEG image stored
in a database BLOB. That is pretty fancy functionality
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Robert Milkowski wrote:
>
> Maybe that's a good one - so if couple of blocks do not compress then
> flag it in file metadata and do not try to compress any blocks within
> the file anymore. Of course for some files it will be suboptimal so
> maybe a dataset option?
This is inte
Hello Darren,
Monday, November 3, 2008, 12:44:29 PM, you wrote:
DJM> Robert Milkowski wrote:
>> Hello zfs-discuss,
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable-standalone.git;a=commit;h=eecfe5255c533fefd38072a04e4afb56c40d9719
>> "If compression for a given set of pages f
Robert Milkowski wrote:
> Hello zfs-discuss,
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable-standalone.git;a=commit;h=eecfe5255c533fefd38072a04e4afb56c40d9719
> "If compression for a given set of pages fails to make them smaller, the
> file is flagged to avoid future compressio
Hello zfs-discuss,
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable-standalone.git;a=commit;h=eecfe5255c533fefd38072a04e4afb56c40d9719
"If compression for a given set of pages fails to make them smaller, the
file is flagged to avoid future compression attempts later."
Maybe that's a
