Is it possible in nginx to keep the cached response compressed?

Question

Nginx

Good day.
There is a caching nginx. API json responses are cached.

1. Is it possible to store them compressed on disk?
2. If possible, then if Accept-Encoding is missing, will nginx decompress them for return to the user?

Answer 1

Can be stored on a file system that supports inline compression.

Answer 2

As a variant of gzip_static