On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:55:39AM +0200, you [Bernardo Innocenti] wrote:
I'm ashamed to admit that sometimes I envy NTFS's transparent
file compression. Yes, it's very slow for general use, but it
would be ideal for backups, old log files, etc.
ext2 has had an unsupported "compressed" attribute for years.
Perhaps it's extremely difficult to implement, but a very
desiderable feature that Linux still lacks.
I've been running 2.2 kernel with the e2compr patch for years and it is very
reliable.
There are 2.4 and 2.6 patches, see
http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/. The 2.4
patches weren't stable when I tried them years ago, but I understand Tim
Southerwood is doing some 2.6 work now.
And yes, it is very useful for backups.
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