[ale] compressed file system?

[Christopher Fowler]

Back a few years ago there was a ext2 patch that could be applied that
would do compression on ext2.  I think it was only for 2.2.X kernels.

One way to do it is to use unionfs.  And use cramfs for your readonly
stuff and ext2 for your read/write.  I'm not suer if you could format a
disk or image using JFFS2 but you could try that.

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 15:46 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 1/26/06, John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > Is anyone aware of a stable read/write compressed file system
> > implementation for Linux?
> >
> > Thanks as always!
> >
> > John
> 
> No, and I looked for one pretty hard about 3 years ago.
> 
> At that point, all the Linux compressed filesystems I could find were read-only.
> 
> If you find one that has come out in the last couple of years, please
> let me know.
> 
> FYI: The 2.6 kernel has had a userspace filesystem interface (fuse??)
> in the mainline kernel.  If you find a solution I suspect it will be a
> user space filesystem implementation that uses fuse as its kernel
> component.  SuSE 10 has fuse as part of its distro kernel.  Unrelated
> but there is supposidely a fairly stable read/write NTFS userspace
> driver that uses fuse.
> 
> Greg
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