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/
