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I wish there was a file system that, when the CPU is unused, trawled the disk for unused files and transparently compressed them.
by david_draco 5y ago
I wish there was a file system that, when the CPU is unused, trawled the disk for unused files and transparently compressed them.
- pxc 5y agoaren't the existing forms of transparent compression for filesystems better than that?
- david_draco 5y agosuch as? Do you have a link?
- koverstreet 5y agobcachefs does that, with the background_compression option
- pxc 5y agoWhy is it nice to have that behavior as an option in addition to/instead of just trying to compress everything as it's written? aside: gotta love that the commenter who said they wished for this feature got downvoted before a respected filesystem developer casually dropped by to mention that it was a feature he thought was worth implementing in his cool new filesystem.