Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Sat, 5 Feb 2000 18:48:59 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: kernel read/write question |
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Hi,
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 13:29:45 -0800 (PST), "Christopher A. Baumbauer" <cab105@yahoo.com> said:
> My intention is to mount a filesystem where everything is compressed, > except for the files already compressed. An example would be a > directory or file move and having it already compressed without having > to set additional bits or remembering to set the compression bit each > time I mount a disk. I'm not sure if that helps any.
Two things. First of all, with e2compr, all you do is "chattr -r +c <mount-point>" and everything on that filesystem is compressed by default. Isn't that what you are after?
Secondly, policy and mechanism are two entirely different things, and if you want to implement a different policy for when to compress things than the e2compr patch has, it makes little sense to go away and reimplement the entire mechanism too at the same time!
--Stephen
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