NTFS File Compression

[Rod Sanborn]

Does Samba support NTFS file/volume compression?  We have an NT-based
application that processes numerous large files.  We would like to compress
the files, but if we use gzip on the Unix side, it will drastically degrade
the performance (random access becomes sequential searches).  On a native NT
volume, we can use NTFS compression to compress the files and then
uncompress them on the fly.  Is this option available for volumes that Samba
shares to NT?

Rod
rsanborn at ew.elan.af.mil