Why ?
> We use a lot of big datafiles, and normally they are compressed. The
> problem is that not all programs we use are able to coop with compressed
> files: so we have to either rewrite the program; which is not always
> possible, or decompress the file, which demands huge amounts of diskspace
> (a lot of our data files are ascii), and costing a lot of extra time.
>
> The question is: is it possible to write a module which automatically
> (de)compresses certain files, or did someone already wrote a solution to
> that problem?
See zlibc. Its a C library problem more than anything else. There are
ext2 compression patches too.
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