From: Phillip Lougher Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] ext4: Transparent Decompression Support Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:29:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1374699833.7083.2.camel@localhost> <20130724233628.GD3641@logfs.org> <51F14136.30409@mozilla.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, tglek@mozilla.com, vdjeric@mozilla.com, glandium@mozilla.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Dhaval Giani Return-path: In-Reply-To: <51F14136.30409@mozilla.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On 25 July 2013 16:16, Dhaval Giani wrote: > On 07/24/2013 07:36 PM, J=F6rn Engel wrote: > >> Assuming you use the chattr approach, that pretty much comes down to >> adding compression support to ext4. There have been old patches for >> ext2 around that never got merged. Reading up on the problems >> encountered by those patches might be instructive. > > > Do you have subjects for these? When I googled for ext4 compression, = I found > http://code.google.com/p/e4z/ which doesn't seem to exist, and checki= ng in > my LKML archives gives too many false positives. > The ext2 compression project was called e2compr, http://e2compr.sourcef= orge.net/ Also just google for "e2compr". Phillip > Thanks! > Dhaval > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdev= el" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html