Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:56:55 -0600 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: Transparent compression in the FS |
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On Oct 15, 2003 17:25 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 16:30 -0400, Josh Litherland wrote: > > Are there any filesystems which implement the transparent compression > > attribute ? (chattr +c) > > JFFS2 doesn't implement 'chattr +c', which is in fact an EXT2-private > ioctl. But it does do transparent compression.
Actually, reiserfs also supports ext2-compatible SETFLAGS/GETFLAGS ioctls. This allows us to use the same tools for lsattr and chattr instead of using lsattr.reiserfs, etc. Our Lustre distributed filesystem does the same.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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