Re: auto compress with EXT2?

Mike (mike@earth.li)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 20:16:17 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, David Woodhouse wrote:

>
> zeb@writeme.com said:
> > Does EXT2 filesystem support files and dirs auto compress and
> > decompress as MS NTFS do? or other Linux filesystem can do that?
>
> Not by default. Take a look at http://debs.fuller.edu/e2compr/
>
> The latest patch (e2compr-0.4.28-patch-2.2.0pre5) appears to patch into 2.2.1
> OK, and compiles. I haven't yet got as far as booting onto it.
>
It works.

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Mike <rickettm@ox.compsoc.net>

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