From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 28 04:49:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA06247 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 04:49:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA06242 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 04:49:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA21384; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 07:46:51 -0500 From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199602281246.HAA21384@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: Compressing filesystem for FreeBSD To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 07:46:50 -0500 (EST) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) In-Reply-To: <199602280540.WAA06665@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 27, 96 10:40:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > On my laptop it would *certainly* be worth the effort. I've got cycles > to burn since I'm the only user, and I'm more than willing to get free > disk space for my cycles. On my multi-user system, I'm more than > willing to take the performance hit for our local archives which are > rarely accessed by take up a huge amount of space. > > I think most folks who are serious about this understand the costs, and > are willing to pay them for certain applications. > > > > Nate > YES. I've manually gzipped all the binaries on my laptop and it makes the difference between having X on it and not having X on it. The performance on the IDE based 486DX2 75 mhz machine is more than my 486 DX33 ISA AHA1542 desktop (boy I have to upgrade that) and I really wish I didn't have to manually gzip all the files. I'd love a compressing filesystem which would also handle text files transparently. Bill Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | The postmaster always pings twice. Lakewood MicroSystems | 17 Meredith Drive, 908-389-3592 | Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 pechter@shell.monmouth.com |