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Reiser4 supports both ENCRYPTION and compression.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 14, 2007 09:06 AM
The Reiser4 filesystem supports both ENCRYPTION and compression.

Reiser claims that using compression makes the Reiser4 filesystem some 50% faster than not using it.

However, will cannot verify this because Andrew Morton has always arranged than neither encryption nor compression are available in his mm-kernel.

I suggest that someone take control of Reiser4 away from Andrew Morton.

Here are some filesystem benchmarks from <a href="http://linuxhelp.150m.com/" title="150m.com">http://linuxhelp.150m.com/</a 150m.com> that clearly show that Reiser4 is the best filesystem ever developed.
<tt>|File    |Disk |Copy |Copy |Tar  |Unzip| Del |
|System  |Usage|655MB|655MB|Gzip |UnTar| 2.5 |
|Type    |(MB) | (1) | (2) |655MB|655MB| Gig |

 
|REISER4 | 692 | 148 |  55 |  67 |  25 |  56 |
| (tails)| 673 | 148 |  63 |  78 |  33 |  65 |
|NTFS3g  | 772 |1333 |1426 | 585 | 767 | 194 |
|NTFS    | 779 | 781 | 173 |   X |   X |   X |
|REISER3 | 793 | 184 |  98 |  85 |  63 |  22 |
|XFS     | 799 | 220 | 173 | 119 |  90 | 106 |
|JFS     | 806 | 228 | 202 |  95 |  97 | 127 |
|EXT4    | 816 | 174 |  70 |  74 |  42 |  50 |
|EXT3    | 816 | 182 |  74 |  73 |  43 |  51 |
|EXT2    | 816 | 201 |  82 |  73 |  39 |  67 |
|FAT32   | 988 | 253 | 158 | 118 |  81 |  95 |</tt>
For more info see <a href="http://linuxhelp.150m.com/resources/fs-benchmarks.htm" title="150m.com">http://linuxhelp.150m.com/resources/fs-benchmarks<nobr>.<wbr></nobr> htm</a 150m.com>

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