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SubjectRe: announce: ext2 compression patch
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I have to agree with Jerry Pournelle on this (he had a column a few
months ago in Byte where he talked about this).

On the fly compression to writable file systems is a bad idea...
It encrypts your whole file system making recovery impossible...

If you have a problem, you can generally recover ascii data reasonably
well...

It may make sense for cdroms...but what do you gain over doing
a gzip -r . when you want to...




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marty
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