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There are 3 filesystems that can do transparent compression: NTFS, ZFS, btrfs. One is for Windows, the other isn't available for RedHat/CentOS, the third is get
by pmlnr 9y ago
There are 3 filesystems that can do transparent compression: NTFS, ZFS, btrfs. One is for Windows, the other isn't available for RedHat/CentOS, the third is getting sunset. XFS could really benefit from compression support.
- unixhero 9y agoBtrfs isn't getting sunset tho. And ZFS can be installed on any Linux distribution.
- vetinari 9y agoGP probably meant in RHEL/CentOS. It was deprecated in 7.4, it will be removed in 7.5 (already is in beta). Yeah, I spent one afternoon migrating a CentOS+btrfs machine to XFS.
- vetinari 9y agoZFS is available in RHEL/CentOS. Not as a first-party option, but thanks to kABI that Red Hat provides, it is provided by the ZoL project also in a form of a binary kernel module, ready to go, without having to fumble around with DKMS and compilers. Btrfs is being obsoleted by RHEL only, because they have XFS expertise, but not Btrfs. No need to split limited resources. Other distributions will continue with development. SuSE doesn't intend to stop.