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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the compressed file attribute
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 07:47:32 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bvnjmk$85l$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 40199070.9040201@lougher.demon.co.uk

Followup to:  <40199070.9040201@lougher.demon.co.uk>
By author:    Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.fs.devel
> 
> CRAMFS, Squashfs, zisofs are read-only filesystems (you imply you want a 
> rw filesystem), and compress all files.
> 

zisofs only compresses files with the ZF RockRidge attribute.  A
zisofs filesystem can have an arbitrary mix of compressed and
uncompressed files; in fact, the default toolchain will not compress
files if they end up larger than the uncompressed version.

	-hpa

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-03  7:47 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
2004-01-30  3:30   ` Erez Zadok
2004-02-03  7:47   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-01-29 23:26 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-01-30  7:33 ` Yury V. Umanets

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