[OpenAFS-devel] Patches for Openafs compression support

[Mitch Collinsworth]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Sven Oehme wrote:

> we have started a new project to enhance the data transfer (first on
> volume level) to slow link connected sites.
> we implemented the gzip algorithm and will add bzip2 compression later.
>
> i have attached two patches for Openafs 1.2.13 and 1.3.77 to add gzip
> compression to vos dump , release and restore

Question:  How is it decided when to compress and when to not?  Does
the invoker have to request it, is it done by default, etc?

-Mitch