Comment by athrowaway3z

1 month ago

I do wonder if the compression step makes sense at this layer instead of the filesystem layer.

Interesting take. I'm using btrfs (instead of ext4) with compression enabled (using zstd), so most of the files are compressed "transparently" - the files appear as normal files to the applications, but on disk it is compressed, and the application don't need to do the compress/decompress.