#36560: Use hfsCompression --------------------------+---------------------- Reporter: mfeiri@… | Owner: mfeiri@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: 2.1.2 Resolution: | Keywords: haspatch Port: | --------------------------+---------------------- Comment (by mfeiri@…): AFAICT the only way for us to avoid writing files twice with {{{ditto}}} is to require the use of cpio instead of tar for archives. Not sure if this is a good idea. I'm also not sure if libarchive would accept patches for direct HFS compresion, because AFAIK there is no official API for HFS compression and it is a bit of a hack anyway. Maybe one day we will get something like ZFS and we can simply configure truly transparent filesystem compression per directory... But for now {{{ditto}}} is the only available tool and filesystem compression is a desireable feature. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36560#comment:12> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS