[olug] Filesystem Compression

[Adam Lassek]

You can set the "c" flag on files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem using
chattr, and according to the man page this should compress it. Has
anyone done this?

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 09:46, Andrew Embury wrote:
> Is it possible to do compression on any of the major, stable Linux file
> systems?  I'm working on a multi-terabyte disk-to-disk backup system and
> would like to have on-the-fly compression enabled at the filesystem level.
> The best I could find was an unsupported patch for ext2 that never seemed
> to be integrated into the kernel.
> 
> I'm running RedHat EL ES 3.  Stability is the #1 concern.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Drew
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