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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:30:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
To: Andreas Happe <andreashappe@snikt.net>
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Subject: Re: what is our answer to ZFS?
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Andreas Happe wrote:
> On 2005-11-21, Alfred Brons <alfredbrons@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Paulo!
> > I wasn't aware of this thread.
> >
> > But my question was: do we have similar functionality
> > in Linux kernel?
[snip]
> >>> Filesystems can be created instantaneously, snapshots and clones
> >>> taken, native backups made, and a simplified property mechanism
> >>> allows for setting of quotas, reservations, compression, and more.
> 
> excepct per-file compression all thinks should be doable with normal in-kernel
> fs. per-file compression may be doable with ext2 and special patches, an
> overlay filesystem or reiser4.

NTFS has per-file compression although I admit that in Linux this is 
read-only at present (mostly because it is low priority).

Best regards,

	Anton
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