On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 06:56:12PM +0100, Petr Bena wrote: > Hi, I like the compress feature, but unlike NTFS, compressing files in > btrfs is not so simple. Just changing the flags using chattr will not > compress anything, only newly written data would be. > > For this reason I decided to create a new tool that makes this simple, > you can find it here: https://github.com/benapetr/compress > > It's very simple to use, for example to compress whole folder, you would do > > compress -rv <folder_name> > > the tool would recursively scan the folder, change all folders to +c > and copy all files, preserving attributes to a temporary file within > folder, then removes the original and move the copied, now fully > compressed file back.
What does it do that this doesn't? $ chattr -R +c $dir $ btrfs fi defrag -r -c $dir (Sorry to do this to you, but better early in the life of the project than later). Hugo. > It's written in python despite I loathe it (I am a C++ programmer), > because most of people love it for some reason, any because this would > make it more simple for people to deploy it and modify it. > > The tool right now is in early alpha stage, probably full of bugs, I > made it few hours ago, but I would like to hear any feedback, whether > there would be any use for such a tool, feature requests etc :) -- Hugo Mills | You shouldn't anthropomorphise computers. They hugo@... carfax.org.uk | really don't like that. http://carfax.org.uk/ | PGP: 65E74AC0 |
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