Re: Transparent compression in the FS

[Erik Mouw]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:30:50PM -0400, Josh Litherland wrote:
> Are there any filesystems which implement the transparent compression
> attribute ?  (chattr +c)

The NTFS driver supports compressed files. Because it doesn't have
proper write support, I don't think it will do anything useful with
chattr +c.

Nowadays disks are so incredibly cheap, that transparent compression
support is not realy worth it anymore (IMHO).


Erik

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