Compression on L2 cache?

[kukreknecmi]

Does Fancy Cache supports/operates compression? I guess readyboost is using some kind of compression and it is said more or less it success around 2:1 compression. I wonder if fancycache support any kind of compression on L1 or L2, or if there isnt any, are any plans on implementing a compression. Something like compcache i guess.

[intika]

good idea ! may be if we could set the compression level it will be better...
i don't think it support compression for now, but support will tell exactly...
don't forget that compression will use cpu... make computer hotter, and user more battery on laptop...

[Support]

Currently we've no plan to support compression. The compression increases cache capacity, but it degrade the access speed.

[sparkler]

yes but its still faster access time then a hdd

[intika]

i think this stuff will make the machine buggy when you will be using a lot of softs at same time... maybe developer should test and see

[Nina]

I believe that it's possible to get the same result if you're using NTFS compression.. Compressed NTFS data chunks will be cached as it is in Fancy Cache buffer.. Maybe I'm wrong..

[intika]

oho ! good idea Nina ! ... but one the data is read it's uncompressed... it depend on how fc work...

[sparkler]

NTFS compression requires an NTFS partition that journals data = more wear to SSD also the MTF wastes quite a bit of space

[BikeHelmet]

NTFS compression requires an NTFS partition that journals data = more wear to SSD also the MTF wastes quite a bit of space

That can't be true. fsutil usn queryjournal reports that journaling is off for my drives, yet I'm definitely using NTFS compression. (How else would I fit 600GB of Steam games on a 500GB partition?)

I seem to recall the journal also being visible in Defraggler, but after turning it off it vanished. They don't seem to be connected. It's definitely possible to have one or the other on XP.