> Subject: announce: ext2 compression patch
>
> The pointer below is to a set of ALPHA drivers that implement on the fly
> gzip decompression in the ext2 fs. I havent done work on this for ~2
> months, but maybe people will find it useful.
[snip]
> Read the details at
>
> http://www.plpk.uq.oz.au:8001/~brad/extz.html
>
I don't know if it's still up-to-date with the latest and greatest of
kernels but Antoine Dumesnil de Maricourt already wrote a compressed ext2
filesystem, which is (as far as i know :) totally transparent.
More info at:
http://www.etca.fr/Users/Antoine%20de%20Maricourt/english/e2compress.html
Hope this helps...
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