MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the heels of the LZO compression thread, I bring you a 7zip compression
> thread!
>
> Shown here as the open source system with the best compression ratio:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression#Comparative
>
> Shown here on a SPARC system with the best compression ratios and good CPU
> usage: http://warp.povusers.org/ArchiverComparison/
>
>
> Obviously 7zip is far more CPU-intensive than anything in use with ZFS today.
> But maybe with all these processor cores coming down the road, a high-end
> compression system is just the thing for ZFS to use.
You would need a complete new clean C implementation for the
algorithm. If someone would do this, I would be happy to also
use the code for star ,-)
Jörg
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