Re: auto compress with EXT2?

Max (max@Linuz.sns.it)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:16:01 +0100 (MET)


On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Enbo Zhang wrote:

>Does EXT2 filesystem support files and dirs auto compress and decompress as
>MS NTFS do? or other Linux filesystem can do that?

There used to be "E2compr" (http://debs.fuller.edu/e2compr/), a patch to allow
transparent file compression on ext2,
and "double" (http://perso.cybercable.fr/~verbavat/double/), a compressed block
device driver.

I have no idea if they are updated for 2.2.x though.

Massimiliano Ghilardi

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