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On 28 Dec, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. |
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>> I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, |
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>> so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. |
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>> I've come across CompFused which seems to be just what I'm looking for, |
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>> but it's buggy not maintained anymore. |
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>> Similarly, fusecompress |
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>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127433 |
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>> doesn't build on an up-to-date Gentoo system and doesn't |
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>> look maintained either. |
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>> There would be sys-fs/zfs-fuse but that sounds like overkill to me. |
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>> Are there any other packages? |
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>> Many thanks for a hint, |
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>> Helmut. |
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> |
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> reiser4. Bonus, it only tries to compress stuff that can be compressed (the |
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> test is quick&dirty and sometimes wrong, but most of the time good enough). |
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Thanks! |
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But what's the future of reiser4 FS ? What are the advantages compared |
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to btrfs ? |
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Many thanks, |
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Helmut. |
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Helmut Jarausch |
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Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik |
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RWTH - Aachen University |
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D 52056 Aachen, Germany |
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