| Supervisor | Niklas Gollenstede |
| IBR Group | VSS (Prof. Dietrich) |
| Type | Bachelor Thesis |
| Status | tentative |
Transparent filesystem compression is a tradeoff between storage density, transfer rates, latency, processing and memory overhead, and complexity. Whether it is effective at all and its ideal settings depend on hardware constraints, system load, performance requirements, filesystem implementation, and file access patterns. EROFS can therefore be configured to use various compression algorithms and parametrization, for a whole filesystem, file types, or even individual files. This thesis will explore a part of this configuration space, specifically using EROFS as store for Nix components or OCI image layers. Both store program data (ELF executables, static assets, configuration files), and are deployed on a wide variety of systems. | |