F2FS File-System Seeing LZO/LZ4 Compression Support
Native compression support for F2FS is being worked on and is more selective rather than the blanket enabling like with Btrfs. In the F2FS case there is a compress_extension mount option for just compressing files with a matching file extension. Besides the compress_extension method, it can manually be enabled for select files/directories with chattr +c for compression.
The current F2FS compression implementation supports options of LZO and LZ4 for compression and can be changed via the compress_algorithm mount option. There is also the compress_log_size option if wanting to tune the compression cluster size.
More details on this currently experimental F2FS compression implementation via this mailing list post.
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