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Allow using the fast modes (negative compression levels) of zstd as a
mount option.
As per the results, the compression ratio is (expectedly) lower:
for level in {-15..-1} 1 2 3; \
do printf "level %3d\n" $level; \
mount -o compress=zstd:$level /dev/sdb /mnt/test/; \
grep sdb /proc/mounts; \
cp -r /usr/bin /mnt/test/; sync; compsize /mnt/test/bin; \
cp -r /usr/share/doc /mnt/test/; sync; compsize /mnt/test/doc; \
cp enwik9 /mnt/test/; sync; compsize /mnt/test/enwik9; \
cp linux-6.13.tar /mnt/test/; sync; compsize /mnt/test/linux-6.13.tar; \
rm -r /mnt/test/{bin,doc,enwik9,linux-6.13.tar}; \
umount /mnt/test/; \
done |& tee results | \
awk '/^level/{print}/^TOTAL/{print$3"\t"$2" |"}' | paste - - - - -
266M bin | 45M doc | 953M wiki | 1.4G source
=============================+===============+===============+===============+
level -15 180M 67% | 30M 68% | 694M 72% | 598M 40% |
level -14 180M 67% | 30M 67% | 683M 71% | 581M 39% |
level -13 177M 66% | 29M 66% | 671M 70% | 566M 38% |
level -12 174M 65% | 29M 65% | 658M 69% | 548M 37% |
level -11 174M 65% | 28M 64% | 645M 67% | 530M 35% |
level -10 171M 64% | 28M 62% | 631M 66% | 512M 34% |
level -9 165M 62% | 27M 61% | 615M 64% | 493M 33% |
level -8 161M 60% | 27M 59% | 598M 62% | 475M 32% |
level -7 155M 58% | 26M 58% | 582M 61% | 457M 30% |
level -6 151M 56% | 25M 56% | 565M 59% | 437M 29% |
level -5 145M 54% | 24M 55% | 545M 57% | 417M 28% |
level -4 139M 52% | 23M 52% | 520M 54% | 391M 26% |
level -3 135M 50% | 22M 50% | 495M 51% | 369M 24% |
level -2 127M 47% | 22M 48% | 470M 49% | 349M 23% |
level -1 120M 45% | 21M 47% | 452M 47% | 332M 22% |
level 1 110M 41% | 17M 39% | 362M 38% | 290M 19% |
level 2 106M 40% | 17M 38% | 349M 36% | 288M 19% |
level 3 104M 39% | 16M 37% | 340M 35% | 276M 18% |
The samples represent some data sets that can be commonly found and show
approximate compressibility. The fast levels trade off speed for ratio
and are best suitable for highly compressible data.
As can be seen above, comparing the results to the current default zstd
level 3, the negative levels are roughly 2x worse at -15 and the
ratio increases almost linearly with each level.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vacek <neelx@suse.com>
[ update changelog ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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