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hazelnot :yell:

Someone told me btrfs compression can actually speed things up? And then explained it to me? But I literally can't believe it? How the fuck?

Doesn't compression always slow things down because the CPU has to then decompress the data!?!?

Also that you can switch from ext4 to btrfs in place without formatting the drive!?!?!?!?

@hazelnot
Compression can speed things up if your drive bus sucks but your CPU is good.

I don't know about btrfs specifically, but I've experienced this elsewhere.

speculating about compression speed up

speculating about compression speed up

speculating about compression speed up