From: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
To: Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the compressed file attribute
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:00:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40199070.9040201@lougher.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1075415709.2575.80.camel@patibmrh9>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-29 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-29 22:35 the compressed file attribute Pat LaVarre
2004-01-29 23:00 ` Phillip Lougher [this message]
2004-01-30 3:30 ` Erez Zadok
2004-02-03 7:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-29 23:26 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-01-30 7:33 ` Yury V. Umanets
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