Re: [coLinux-users] Smaller filesystems (gratuitous e2compr plug)

[Jason A. P. <pat...@pc...>]

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Paul Whittaker wrote:
| Note that you will need special e2compr-aware versions of ext2 tools
| (e2fsck, chattr, etc) available from the e2compr.sf.net site.  Please note
| also that, although it has been around for many years, e2compr is
considered
| experimental and should not be relied upon for storage of anything
| particularly valuable.  But then the same is true of coLinux, I guess.

I had my company laptop setup once using e2compr to compress everything
on it (I have a 10GB harddrive with only 4.5GB available to Linux).  I
pretty much lost everything on it.  Major filesystem corruption occurred
after using it for a few months.  I can't remember the exact details,
but files started not being able to decompress, and I think some may
have ended up being deleted as well.  So, unless there has been some
major work done on e2compr in the past year or so, I probably would not
rely on it.

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Jason A. Pattie
pat...@xp...
Xperience, Inc. (http://www.xperienceinc.com)
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