Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4146ACE7.90806@x-ray.at> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:33:43 +0200 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040714 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: WinXP compressed dirs will work? References: <6.1.0.6.0.20040913180828.03f85a00@pop.prospeed.net> In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040913180828.03f85a00@pop.prospeed.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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. -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/