Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 05:33:41 -0800 | From | Ian Eure <> | Subject | Re: auto compress with EXT2? |
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On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 03:27:27PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > zeb@writeme.com said: > > Does EXT2 filesystem support files and dirs auto compress and > > decompress as MS NTFS do? or other Linux filesystem can do that? > > Not by default. Take a look at http://debs.fuller.edu/e2compr/ > > The latest patch (e2compr-0.4.28-patch-2.2.0pre5) appears to patch into 2.2.1 > OK, and compiles. I haven't yet got as far as booting onto it. > I played with e2compr back in the 2.0.30 - .33 days. It seems(seemed?) to be pretty stable, albeit slower. You should also be aware that if you try to read an e2compr'd disk/harddisk on a box without an e2compr'd kernel, everything will work ok, but your data will be corrupted, since it never gets decompressed.
It's also a very, very bad idea to run e2compr on an older drive, or a drive with bad blocks, since if the drive starts going bad, you lose more data than on an uncompressed drive.
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