Christian Smith wrote:
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Sid Liu wrote:
Is there a possibility that this Reiser 4 be used on a
file, rather than a file system? Hopefully on Windows?
Reiser FS is a filesystem. It manages files. So it cannot be used on a
file.
Your third statement is not true. On Linux (and FreeBSD, but FreeBSD
does not have Reiser as far as I know) you can treat a regular file as
if it were a filesystem and mount that fiel system via the "loop back"
device. You can mount an ISO image file as an actual CD, for instance.
Years ago I imaged all of my old DOS floppies. I access them via the
loop back device now. In theory, you can do that with any file system
that can use a block device (ntfs, iso9660, ext3, etc...) but not with
nfs, smbfs, proc, etc...
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy_file.img
# Eject floppy, don't need it anymore.
losetup /dev/loop0 floppy_file.img
mount -t vfat /dev/loop0 /mnt/floppy
ls -l /mnt/floppy
Windows NTFS already has compressed files. Right click a file or directory
in exporer, select propeties, then advanced attributes. You can turn on
compression there. Don't know how to do it from the command line, though.
