On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Tom Marshall <tom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd like to get some thoughts on whether having transparent per-file > compression implemented in the kernel would be desirable. For Samba this is very desirable. Virtualization (HyperV in particular over SMB3) will try to mark image files as compressed (and sparse) which Samba typically can only do over btrfs. As long as set compression flag on the file is a 'hint' (in otherwords setting the flag doesn't cause a blocking ioctl for 15 minutes to hang while it compresses the file) it should be helpful to Samba in common Windows/Mac workloads. -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
