Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:29:41 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] ext4: Transparent Decompression Support | From | Phillip Lougher <> |
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On 25 July 2013 16:16, Dhaval Giani <dgiani@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 07/24/2013 07:36 PM, Jörn Engel wrote:
> >> Assuming you use the chattr approach, that pretty much comes down to >> adding compression support to ext4. There have been old patches for >> ext2 around that never got merged. Reading up on the problems >> encountered by those patches might be instructive. > > > Do you have subjects for these? When I googled for ext4 compression, I found > http://code.google.com/p/e4z/ which doesn't seem to exist, and checking in > my LKML archives gives too many false positives. >
The ext2 compression project was called e2compr, http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/
Also just google for "e2compr".
Phillip
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