[olug] Filesystem Compression

William Langford unfie at cox.net
Sat Oct 30 17:52:49 UTC 2004


e2comp or whatever it was ... has been mentioned. I ran it a few times 
with pretty good success.  Gotta be careful of sectors that decide to 
die/corrupt tho...

long time ago, during the 2.0 series, i remember a 'block device' 
compressor. it wasn't neccessarily a file system compression setup, but 
it's primary use was as one.

it might have been googled/altavista/hotbot'd as 'doublespace for linux' 
or something, i don't recall... been many a year :).  Anyhoo, it's 
strength was that since it worked on block devices rather than being 
tied to a particular file system.. it could compress... anything.

Dunno if it still exists.

Best bet is to wait for the LZO/Reiserfs module. Probably loads more stable.




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