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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2010-10-25 15:12:26 +0800
committerLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2010-12-22 23:15:47 +0800
commita6fa6fae40ec336c7df6155255ae64ebef43a8bc (patch)
tree6cda8aa6a60967206614a941f034249e3017913e /fs/btrfs/Kconfig
parent261507a02ccba9afda919852263b6bc1581ce1ef (diff)
downloadlinux-a6fa6fae40ec336c7df6155255ae64ebef43a8bc.tar.gz
btrfs: Add lzo compression support
Lzo is a much faster compression algorithm than gzib, so would allow
more users to enable transparent compression, and some users can
choose from compression ratio and speed for different applications

Usage:

 # mount -t btrfs -o compress[=<zlib,lzo>] dev /mnt
or
 # mount -t btrfs -o compress-force[=<zlib,lzo>] dev /mnt

"-o compress" without argument is still allowed for compatability.

Compatibility:

If we mount a filesystem with lzo compression, it will not be able be
mounted in old kernels. One reason is, otherwise btrfs will directly
dump compressed data, which sits in inline extent, to user.

Performance:

The test copied a linux source tarball (~400M) from an ext4 partition
to the btrfs partition, and then extracted it.

(time in second)
           lzo        zlib        nocompress
copy:      10.6       21.7        14.9
extract:   70.1       94.4        66.6

(data size in MB)
           lzo        zlib        nocompress
copy:      185.87     108.69      394.49
extract:   193.80     132.36      381.21

Changelog:

v1 -> v2:
- Select LZO_COMPRESS and LZO_DECOMPRESS in btrfs Kconfig.
- Add incompability flag.
- Fix error handling in compress code.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/btrfs/Kconfig')
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diff --git a/fs/btrfs/Kconfig b/fs/btrfs/Kconfig
index 7bb3c020e570..ecb9fd3be143 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/btrfs/Kconfig
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ config BTRFS_FS
 	select LIBCRC32C
 	select ZLIB_INFLATE
 	select ZLIB_DEFLATE
+	select LZO_COMPRESS
+	select LZO_DECOMPRESS
 	help
 	  Btrfs is a new filesystem with extents, writable snapshotting,
 	  support for multiple devices and many more features.