Selective Compression/Encryption

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Currently compression and I assume if encryption is implemented it is
turned on or off during mount. There are however many times when a user may
want to select which files/directories they want to compress or encrypt.
This will also be helpful when implementing btrfs support in grub for
example. We can say the disk can be compressed/encrypted except for /boot so 
compression/encryption doesn't have to be implemented in grub.

I was thinking of adding this functionality to the userspace application
btrfstune. The way I was thinking of doing this is when btrfstune +c is
applied to a directory or file the directory(and all its contents) or
file will always be compressed reguardless of how the filesystem is
mounted. The opposite would happen when btrfstune -c is used.

Would this be a reasonable thing to implement? Any suggestions before I
start doing this?

Lee
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