[olug] Filesystem Compression

[Phil Brutsche]

William Langford wrote:
> 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...

That's what backups and RAIDs are for.

> 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.

The compressed loop block device (cloop)?

DMSDOS? http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/dmsdos/

The the former is read-only and the latter is primarily geared to 2.0.x
and 2.2.x kernels.  It could *theoretically* be used with 2.4.x kernels,
but only if you don't value system stability or your data!

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us