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 Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:05:56 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: WinXP compressed dirs will work? Message-ID: <20040914130556.GF32582@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <6.1.0.6.0.20040913180828.03f85a00@pop.prospeed.net> <4146ACE7.90806@x-ray.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4146ACE7.90806@x-ray.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:33:43AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >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. I don't understand why you would expect something called e2fsprogs to manipulate NTFS file systems. -- 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/