Compressed Directories?

[Peter Abrahamsen]

I don't think there's any way to do it by directory, but a quick search on
freshmeat turns up e2compr - patches for compressed ext2. Might want to give
it a try. In the userspace, many programs will use zlibc to transparently
access compressed files. vim and the gimp come to mind.

Peter

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 08:17:16PM -0700, Michal Guerquin wrote:
> .tar.gz files are great, but is there a way to compress an entire folder
> or directory, yet have it still be accessible like any other directory?
> I'm thinking of a tool that works on the file system layer and can
> compress/uncompress data on-the-fly. Stacker, Diskdoubler, etc. for
> BSD/Linux?
> 
> 
> ~ Michal
> --
> 
> Random:
> 
>   The goal of science is to build better mousetraps.
>   The goal of nature is to build better mice.
> 
> 

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