From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:20:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:20:27 -0400 Received: from eventhorizon.antefacto.net ([193.120.245.3]:63670 "EHLO eventhorizon.antefacto.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:20:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3CB4824D.2030509@antefacto.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:19:57 +0100 From: Padraig Brady User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: timk@advfn.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: R/W compressed fs support?? In-Reply-To: <200204101306.g3AD67s01683@mail.advfn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org e2compr for 2.4 is being implemented by alcatel (France). I've successfully used it with 2.4.16 (against filesystems created with the 2.2 version). although I haven't stressed it yet. "Denis Richard" should have more info (and the 769777 byte patch). Padraig. Tim Kay wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone know of a Linux equivalent to DoubleSpace or whatever that > allows you read and _write_ to a compressed partiton or filesystem (in a way > that is transparent to the progs using the fs). I know there was e2compr but > that doesn't seem to have been touched in nearly 2 years, and is 2.2 > specific, Infotec and the CBD patch seem to have died and zlibc seems to be a > read only solution. I'd have thought this would have been a biggie for > embedded device people but there doesn't seem to be anything out there. > > Any pointers greatfully received.... > > T.I.A. > > Tim