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From: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:11:16
Message-Id: 20091228171024.19eb0976@malediction
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:58:13 +0100 (CET)
2 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3
4 > Hi,
5 >
6 > I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem.
7 > I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems,
8 > so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date.
9 >
10 > I've come across CompFused which seems to be just what I'm looking
11 > for, but it's buggy not maintained anymore.
12 >
13 > Similarly, fusecompress
14 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127433
15 > doesn't build on an up-to-date Gentoo system and doesn't
16 > look maintained either.
17 >
18 > There would be sys-fs/zfs-fuse but that sounds like overkill to me.
19 >
20 > Are there any other packages?
21
22 Although it might not be stable enough yet, btrfs has support for
23 compression.
24
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27 Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net