WinXP compressed dirs will work?

[Reini Urban]

Christopher Faylor schrieb:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:33:43AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> 
>>Larry Hall schrieb:
>>
>>>At 05:01 PM 9/13/2004, you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>If i compress a dir in the home directory using WinXP native compressing,
>>>>will it work with cygwin???
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes.  Compression is taken care of by Windows at a very low level.  Cygwin 
>>>is a layer over Windows.  Cygwin will never know the difference.
>>
>>BTW: Wouldn't that be wanted?
>>I think of something like chattr, applied to NTFS.
>>
>>Now that we have chattr in e2fsprogs, wouldn't that be a wanted
>>addition to recognize NTFS also, for chattr and lsattr.  Otherwise it's
>>another e2fsprogs nameclash.  Because I cannot think of a better name
>>to modify the NTFS index and compression flags, and in the future for
>>the extended WinFS capabilities.
>>
>>chattr [+-]c would be quite easy to add.
>>SamRobb, Do you knwo if tytso thought about that?  Anyway, I filed a
>>RFE at sf.net For the other flags I don't know the WinAPI that good.
> 
> 
> I don't understand why you would expect something called e2fsprogs to
> manipulate NTFS file systems.

I might expect something called lsattr and chattr to work with the 
current filesystem. regardless if it's in a e2fsprogs package or 
somewhere else.

It works with ext3, debugfs, reiserfs and other filesystems also, not 
only ext2.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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