[syslog-ng]file compression

[Timothy Webster]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:14:06 +0100
Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu> wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 03:29, Timothy Webster wrote:
> > I noticed that file compression is not currently implemented in syslog-ng 1.6.5.
> > Is file compression expected in the near future. I need integrated file
> > compression because writing from syslog, then reading to compress then writing the compressed
> > data is killing my disk io. 1 write, 1 read, ~1/3 write
> 
> Sorry, not currently.
> 
> > 
> > If anybody has got something in cvs let me know.
> > I am interested in lzo compression rather then bz2 or z(gzip).
> > lzo it is about 1/2 space efficient as z, but it is also about 4 times faster.
> > Which suits my needs of realtime compression better.
> 
> Are there any libz-like libraries for your proposed algorithm?
> 
Library
http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/download/lzo-1.08.tar.gz

coding example
http://www.lzop.org/

-tim.