[Discuss] question about hdd partition

J.Bakshi bakshi12 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 10 09:13:29 PDT 2006


On Friday 09 Jun 2006 10:07 pm, p.willis at telus.net wrote:
> J.Bakshi wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 Jun 2006 9:35 pm, p.willis at telus.net wrote:
> >>J.Bakshi wrote:
> >>>Dear list,
> >>>
> >>>hope everyone is well and doing good. I have some questions about HDD
> >>>partition under linux. please read below
> >>>
> >>>1) How can I make a linux based partition which automatically compress
> >>>and then store the files ?
> >>
> >>http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > it is for ext2 only. not for reiserfs or ext3.
>
> I haven't seen a compression system for any
> journalling file systems. Probably because it
> can cause problems with the journalling.
>
> Maybe try EXT2...??
>
> Peter

Just here I like to ask one important question. which one is faster EXT2 or 
EXT3/reiserfs etc. ? I am always interested to have a faster file system in 
my home linux PC.
>
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