announce: ext2 compression patch

Bradley L Schatz (brad@plpk.uq.edu.au)
Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:21:22 +1000

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.

Currently no support is in place to prevent writing to a compressed
file, corrupting it.

Also, executing compressed files is VERY inefficient, but eventually
works. Lest figure how to fix this ?

Read the details at

http://www.plpk.uq.oz.au:8001/~brad/extz.html