compressing intermediate files with LZO on the fly

Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> ... for some usages (temporary space),
> light compression can increase speed. For instance, when processing logs,
> I get better speed by compressing intermediate files with LZO on the fly.

How can you do that on ext3?

Also, can you do that on a partition block-io level?


Thanks!

--
Al

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