On 19.01.2025 22:07, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2025-01-19 13:16, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
Hello,
Are there any plans to include transparent compression with XFS
(especially with zstd)?
I am also curious about this, seeing that btrfs has compression.
Hello Carlos,
Unfortunately, BTRFS is to my expererience not stable and some very
lightly inconsistences (e.g. hardware, software failures) can lead to my
experience to a "forever" corrupt filesystems and a non repareable
filesystem. Also devs on the BTRFS mailinglist couldn't help. You can
run filesystem repair tools "forever" without any success.
Also BTRFS doesn't compress in some scenarios and is therefore not
useable. No solution to this architectural flaw/bug can be offered from
the BTRFS devs. See here for details:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/b7995589-35a4-4595-baea-1dcdf1011d68@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/
Therefore BRFS is unfortunately not an option to choose from.
Tried also bcachefs but it is not ready for production use and is still
experimental.
ZFS is so far ok, but it requires special kernel and ZFS version
requirements and is not a general purpose solution.
Due to the lack of a compressing stable filesystem which is included in
the standard kernel I'm asking to include compression into a stable
filesystem like XFS.
Thnx.
Ciao,
Gerhard
