From: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
To: linuxhippy@gmail.com
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Will I need to re-format my partition for using the compression plugin?
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:12:16 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <433034E0.9080904@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43302F71.3040001@namesys.com>
Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
>Hello
>
>Clemens Eisserer wrote:
>
>
>>Hello again,
>>
>>I am currently re-installing my linux system and I would like to use
>>reiser4 since I think its really powerful and great (and is well
>>written too ;) ).
>>
>>However, will it be possible to convert a non-compressed reiser4
>>partition to a compressed one withought the need of deleting data or
>>reformat anything?
>>
>>
>>
>
>reiser4 compression is based on a file. That means that when it will work you will be able to have new files compressed.
>I guess there will be no way to compress existing files. Experts will correct me if I am wrong.
>
>
>
Precisely speaking the subject and message body contain different
questions. The answer for the first one is no, and Vladimir answered
to the second one correctly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-20 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-20 13:31 Will I need to re-format my partition for using the compression plugin? Clemens Eisserer
2005-09-20 13:58 ` Edward Shishkin
2005-09-20 15:49 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2005-09-20 16:12 ` Edward Shishkin [this message]
2005-09-20 19:19 ` Clemens Eisserer
2005-09-20 19:38 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2005-09-20 19:43 ` Edward Shishkin
2005-09-22 15:24 ` Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
2005-09-22 16:41 ` Edward Shishkin
2005-09-22 17:51 ` Fred Schaettgen
2005-09-22 20:03 ` Edward Shishkin
2005-09-22 20:11 ` David Masover
2005-09-22 20:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-22 20:54 ` michael chang
2005-09-22 21:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-23 9:00 ` Edward Shishkin
2005-09-22 22:13 ` Gregory Maxwell
2005-09-23 6:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-22 20:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-22 20:54 ` Gregory Maxwell
2005-09-22 21:33 ` PFC
2005-09-22 21:38 ` Fred Schaettgen
2005-09-23 11:12 ` Edward Shishkin
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