Re: Compression and on-disk sorting

Bort, Paul wrote:
>> Compressed-filesystem extension (like e2compr, and I think either
>> Fat or NTFS) can do that.
>>
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> Windows (NT/2000/XP) can compress individual directories and files under
> NTFS; new files in a compressed directory are compressed by default.
>
> So if the 'spill-to-disk' all happened in its own specific directory, it
> would be trivial to mark that directory for compression. 
>
> I don't know enough Linux/Unix to know if it has similar capabilities.
>
>
>   

Or would want to ...

I habitually turn off all compression on my Windows boxes, because it's 
a performance hit in my experience. Disk is cheap ...

cheers

andrew