What's wrong with backing store?

[Havoc Pennington]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 14:01 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> But backing store works NOW. Composite don't.
> 

It doesn't support compression or avoid the huge-memory-usage cases now.
Those things aren't trivial to fix, and the people that would fix them
are working on composite instead. Composite is not any more blue-sky or
long-term than fixing backing store would be.

Havoc