From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Lougher Subject: Re: the compressed file attribute Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:00:00 +0000 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40199070.9040201@lougher.demon.co.uk> References: <1075415709.2575.80.camel@patibmrh9> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.91]:9994 "EHLO anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266517AbUA2X27 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:28:59 -0500 To: Pat LaVarre In-Reply-To: <1075415709.2575.80.camel@patibmrh9> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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: > Compressing all files is not the same thing. I don't want the file > system deciding for me which files to compress. > AFAIK e2compr is the only filesystem that does this (http://e2compr.sourceforge.net). It seems to be intermittently maintained and the latest patch appears to be for 2.4.17. CRAMFS, Squashfs, zisofs are read-only filesystems (you imply you want a rw filesystem), and compress all files. JFFS2 is a compressed read-write filesystem for flash, but again it compresses all files. FiST was mentioned a while back on this email group, they have a gzipfs (http://www.filesystems.org), but it is unclear from the documentation whether all files are compressed. Phillip