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From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: Erkki Seppala <flux-btrfs@inside.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] E2fsprogs: add compress and cow support in chattr, lsattr
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 20:41:49 +0100
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Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2015, 12:40:59 schrieb Erkki Seppala:
> Lutz Vieweg <lvml@5t9.de> writes:
> 
> > Maybe "chattr +C" could print a warning if a file
> > to change attributes for is > 0 bytes long?
> 
> This may only affect btrfs. The old ext2? ext3? compression patches
> were able to compress pre-existing files. I don't know how other
> filesystems behave in this regard.

+C is no-cow, -c is compression.

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