Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:49:43 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: _My_ turn for a 2.1 wishlist |
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On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> > * Incorporate file-level compression into ext2fs. This is one feature > > I'd love to see in Linux 2.1.x. > > > > * Perhaps, incorporate ext2fs encryption and/or file undeletion. > > Please don't touch ext2fs. Make a new all-singing all-dancing ext3fs if > you want. I like my stable ext2fs file system. > > I did a word count on the fs/ext2 directory and it's only 5142 lines. > Copy that into fs/ext3 and have at it. >
Ext2fs already supports per file compression, and undeletion, it's just that the kernel code doesn't honour the filesystem's flags. Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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