[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/18/2007 10:30:41 AM:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this has been discussed before, but have you thought
> about adding LZO compression to ZFS?
>
> One zfs-fuse user has provided a patch which implements LZO compression,
> and he claims better compression ratios *and* better speed than lzjb.
>
> The miniLZO library is licensed under the GPL, but the author
> specifically says that other licenses are available by request.
>
> Has this been considered before?
>
FUSE can do this because it runs mostly in user space, Solaris zfs
compression needs to be called in kernel -- so far lzjb and gzip kernel
implementations have been found and utilized for Solaris ZFS.
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