[KLUG Members] FS question

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > > Is there a real time compression option for Linux file systems like
> there is
> > > for NetWare and Windows?
> > You can use chattr to set the c attribute on files;  effect greatly
> > depends on your system, it may do nothing.
> Can you explain this in more detail. What's the c attribute?

Compress.  The theory is you mark file you want to be compressed.  Data
is read from the compressed file, write operation cause the file to be
uncompressed (invisibly) written to, and then recompressed.

I'm not certain what the general level of support for "c" is however.