Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:57:38
Message-Id:	`D1591C5C-C86F-4D3C-BBBF-C6A78D4B2F45@stellar.eclipse.co.uk`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4 by Michael Mol

1	On 9 April 2012, at 15:09, Michael Mol wrote:
2	> …
3	> So, ext2's extended attribute set listed support for compression
4	> (among other things), but it wasn't implemented. …
5	>
6	> Digging into the kenrel source for ext4 in linux-3.2.1.-gentoo-r2,
7	> there are symbols defined for managing compression, but they're not
8	> used. In short, compression support is specced, but not implemented.
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10	Many thanks. I appreciate your interest.
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12	Stroller.