[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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