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Re: WinXP compressed dirs will work?


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.
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