Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:34:08 +0300 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: chattr and ext2 extended attributes |
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:12:18PM +0200, you [Ookhoi] claimed: > Hi Andreas, > > > to do this for a recent kernel, I'm not sure. As for e2compr, I think > > code is slowly making its way into the mainstream - e2fsprogs is now > > starting to have support for it...
Sadly, AFAIK nobody is doing e2compr port to 2.3/2.4. The 2.2 e2compr is very stable and very usable (that's at least my experience.) There was a race that showed up when using samba, but that also fixed now (thanks to Peter Moulder).
The e2compr support in e2fsprogs is still a separate patch, available at the same place as the e2compr kernel patch.
> If it works, then you can just take a huge textfile and it will be > compressed immediately if you put the c flag on it? Or do you have to > read/write it afterwards, or do you even have to start with a touch > file?
The file is compressed right after you do 'chattr -c file'. It then remains compressed until you do 'chattr -c file' - even when you modify the file.
You can also chattr +c a dir, and all the files created into the dir will then be compressed.
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