On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:55:39AM +0200, you [Bernardo Innocenti] wrote: > > I'm ashamed to admit that sometimes I envy NTFS's transparent > file compression. Yes, it's very slow for general use, but it > would be ideal for backups, old log files, etc. > > ext2 has had an unsupported "compressed" attribute for years. > Perhaps it's extremely difficult to implement, but a very > desiderable feature that Linux still lacks. I've been running 2.2 kernel with the e2compr patch for years and it is very reliable. There are 2.4 and 2.6 patches, see http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/. The 2.4 patches weren't stable when I tried them years ago, but I understand Tim Southerwood is doing some 2.6 work now. And yes, it is very useful for backups. -- v -- v@xxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
