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.
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