[Samba] compressed file VFS

[Jean-Pierre]

Marcello Romani wrote:

>
> Windows XP (and later) and almost all Linux file managers support
> viewing a compressed file (e.g. zip archive) as a normal folder. This
> feature lives inside the file manager application and doesn't require
> any server-side support.
>
>>
>> For ntfs the compression is transparent. No specific
>> extension or change needed in applications or scripts.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jean-Pierre
>>
>
> I recently read somewhere about a user that was exporting via samba an
> ntfs volume created under windows that had the "compress" option activated.
> When writing to the share via samba he could create files but not
> overwrite them. Reason is ntfs-3g driver doesn't support overwriting
> transparently compressed files. He solved the issue by mounting the
> volume under Windows and deselecting the "compress" option.
> I'm sorry but I don't remember if that post was recent, and can't find
> it againt right now.

Well, it was not supported.... until support was provided,
this is a very common situation.

Here is the link again :

http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-advanced/data-compression/

Regards

Jean-Pierre