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