> On Sat, May 17, 1997 at 10:13:36AM +0000, campbell@tirian.che.curtin.edu.au wrote:
> > Can someone please point me to the ext2fs development group as I wish
> > to ask about the compression attribute (check the man page on
> > "chattr"). From what I have seen this is not supported as of 2.1.35
> > (so I'm a little behind on the latest version).
>
> There's a [modification to] the ext2 filesystem which supports compression at
> http://netspace.net.au/~reiter/e2compr.html
To answer your other question, the compression flag is indeed inherited
from the parent directory when new files or directories are created,
when using the above patch.
pjm.