Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:10:11 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: chattr and ext2 extended attributes |
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ville Herva wrote:
>> > 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.
I think you are incorrect here. If I'm not mistaken, Riley Williams is the maintainer of e2compr now. It was discussed not long ago.
>> 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.
Yep.
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