From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Yury V. Umanets" Subject: Re: the compressed file attribute Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:33:24 +0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1075448004.1963.11.camel@firefly> References: <1075415709.2575.80.camel@patibmrh9> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:44692 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266369AbUA3HdN (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:33:13 -0500 To: Pat LaVarre In-Reply-To: <1075415709.2575.80.camel@patibmrh9> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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... > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- umka