JFFS3 & performance

[Jared Hulbert]

New idea.

Why should we waste time compressing the uncompressable?  JFFS2
actually spent alot of time compressing.

I can think of a few possible mechanisms:
a) extension based
        -Don't compress files with .mpg, .jpg, .avi, .gz, etc.  User
defined list?
b) test first data
         Compress the first X sized chunk of data to determine if the
file is compressable.  Make  determination and write data.
c) test node by node
          If the last node didn't compress, stop compressing file.