Transparent disk compression

KAMIKAZE_ · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 309 Location: Riga, Latvia

Is there any native feature for linux?
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M1Sports20 · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:31 pm Post subject:

Here is an example of one, but its not in portage

E2compr - Ext2fs transparent compression
* Homepage: http://opensource.captech.com/e2compr/
* Download: ftp://opensource.captech.com/e2compr/

matthiaswinkler · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 10

e2compr for kernel 2.6.22.5

I ported e2compr to the actual kernel 2.6.22.x.
I released a new patch which I consider as stable, so far.
It is possible to patch it against the current 2.6.22.6-kernel
and it does all the necessary kernel configuration now by
itself. Get it here:

http://www.xeer.de/e2compr2.6.22.5.patch.gz