ext2 filesystem compression

[Sean]

Personally i would suggest spending the 200 bucks on a 70gig ide drive and
not bother with compression. It generally isnt worth the time and the mess
it can create.

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 minshal1@msu.edu wrote:

> Greetings GLLUGers:
>
> I remember hearing talk about transparent ext2 filesystem
> compression being added to the kernel a while back.  First
> question, does anyone know if that made it into the
> kernel yet?  Second question, and if so, has anyone actually
> attemped using it?  Is it easy, robust, etc?  Or a pain in
> the neck?
>
> I need to archive a large number of primarily text (but some
> binary) files that will be accessed very infrequently.  By
> my estimation, transparent file system compression is the best
> way to save space on this archive as it needs to be accessed
> via NFS, samba, and local shell accounts.  It also needs to be
> searchable by filename and directory name via find/grep and
> via windoze's "find a file on a mapped drive" thing.  Teaching
> people about gzip and tar is out of the question.
>
> I'm open to other suggestions as well if anyone has a better
> idea.  Thanks for any help!
>
> -Ben
>
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