The Saturday 2004-10-23 at 10:31 +0200, Paul Hewlett wrote:
Ok, I know that ext2 was thought, at some point, to get it. But I'm unable to find the man page that mentioned this time ago - it was "man attr", I think. It has not being implemented.
Try 'man lsattr' and 'man chattr'. The 'c' attribute indicates file by file compression. These commands also work on Reiser on SuSE9.1 Pro i.e. they do not report an error when executed.
That's the man page I was refering to, that I had forgotten which one it was. But read on that man: BUGS AND LIMITATIONS As of Linux 2.2, the c', 's', and u' attribute are not honored by the kernel filesystem code. These attributes will be implemented in a future ext2 fs version. There are also some mentions of "experimental compression patches" -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson