On 28 January 2012 19:23, Roman Mamedov [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:05:41 +1100
Ben Klein [off-list ref] wrote:

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If the compression routine changes in a later kernel/filesystem revision,

There are already two different algorithms, zlib and lzo, and a third one -
snappy - planned for inclusion.

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then you could end up with some files using one routine and others using another.

Which is absolutely not a problem even right now.

My bad :)

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Roman

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