According to Keith Owens:
> I am looking for a compressed, read only version of ext2 to use for
> backup media. Ideally the metadata would be uncompressed so I could go
> directly to a file but the data would be transparently compressed. The
> data would be written only once and thereafter would be read only. A
> bit like romfs but with transparent data compression and full support
> for ext2 attributes, including symlinks. Does such an animal exist?
I do not know the exact status of it... but it looks like this is what
you are looking for:
e2compr: Transparent compression for ext2 filesystem
http://www.netspace.net.au/~reiter/e2compr/
A good article on Linux Gazette about e2compr:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue18/e2compr.html
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