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Re:Show HN: Compressed directories on Linux by shmerl on Monday May 08, 2017 @12:14AM (#14289199)
Yes, but ZFS is probably more memory hungry and somewhat an overkill just for compression alone. It's a pity simpler filesystems don't have transparent compression.
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Re:Show HN: Compressed directories on Linux by matt_wulfeck on Monday May 08, 2017 @01:50AM (#14289517)
I'm not sure it's an overkill compared to the presented solution.
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Re:Show HN: Compressed directories on Linux by keeperofdakeys on Monday May 08, 2017 @06:12AM (#14290429)
One disadvantage of zfs in this case is that it uses its own caching layer, since it's basically an OS subsystem in itself. So on a memory constrained host (eg. rpi), you might have some issues with the zfs and linux buffers competing for RAM.
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Re:Show HN: Compressed directories on Linux by trentnelson on Monday May 08, 2017 @04:43PM (#14295407)
Like NTFS has had for the last 20+ years? ;-)

One of the benefits of NT's packet-driven I/O model (versus the UNIX synchronous VFS read/write blocking buffer I/O model).

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Re:Show HN: Compressed directories on Linux by shmerl on Monday May 08, 2017 @04:58PM (#14295533)
BTRFS is now good for it, but having it in other filesystems would be useful too. Linux now supports some async I/O as well.
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