Compressed disk-based filesystem, anyone?

Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net
Tue Feb 4 14:47:49 EST 2003


On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:

=>Hiya, all -- I know that there are compressed filesystems (eg. Linus' own
=>cramfs), but I believe they're largely read-only for embedded systems. 
=>I'm looking, for various reasons, to find a disk-based compressed
=>filesystem.  Is anyone aware of such a beast?
=>
=>Thanks,
=>
=>-Ken
http://squashfs.sourceforge.net but that only works as a readonly system.
There's the c attribute to chattr under ext[23]

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