Re: auto compress with EXT2?
Ian Eure (ieure@crosssound.narrows.com)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 05:33:41 -0800
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 03:27:27PM +0000, 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.
>
I played with e2compr back in the 2.0.30 - .33 days. It seems(seemed?)
to be pretty stable, albeit slower. You should also be aware that if
you try to read an e2compr'd disk/harddisk on a box without an e2compr'd
kernel, everything will work ok, but your data will be corrupted, since
it never gets decompressed.
It's also a very, very bad idea to run e2compr on an older drive, or a
drive with bad blocks, since if the drive starts going bad, you lose
more data than on an uncompressed drive.
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