Re: the compressed file attribute

["Yury V. Umanets" <umka@namesys.com>]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 00:35, Pat LaVarre wrote:
> Does one of the Linux fs, other than ntfs, already let me distinguish
> one file from another by a compressed attribute?  What I'm hoping to
> find is:
> 
> Uncompressed files work same as always.
> 
> Compressed files appear to work same as always, but under the covers the
> data of the file occupies more or less space according to how
> compressible it is.  Random access within the file either sequentially
> rewrites all the file or else garbage collects and defragments.
> 
> I ask here because I think Google mostly points me to file systems that
> compress all files e.g. fs/cramfs/README Future Development doesn't
> mention this twist, e.g. `ls fs | egrep -i nw5` is empty, ...
> 
> Compressing all files is not the same thing.  I don't want the file
> system deciding for me which files to compress.
> 
> Pat LaVarre
Take a look onto reiser4. It has plugin based architecture and has so
called crypto-compress unix file plugin. 

Probably it is what you are looking for, though it is not stable yet...

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