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Ahh, some of these look useful - going to start with compfused |
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(developed on gentoo, though there is no ebuild) |
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BillK |
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On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:18 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote: |
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> On Fri, 12 May 2006, W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > What can I use for a compressed file system? I am looking at setting up |
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> > a loopback mounted filesystem that I want to use to store backups into. |
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> > Compression is needed as space will become a limitation in the future (I |
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> > want to do a whole system backup that so far is 2:1 compressed via |
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> > tar.bzip2. I am thinking of using dirvish into a compressed loopback |
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> > mount - but how do I set up a compressed fs? |
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> > Squashfs, cloop and zisofs are readonly, I have looked at encfs (looks |
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> > nice), but it doesnt seem to compress, just encrypt and I dont want the |
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> > overhead, or need it. e2compr looks a bit like abandonware - what else |
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> > is available? |
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> linux+FS+compression+rw=lost. use windows :-O or solaris. May be you can |
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> try FUSE + http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSystems. |
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> Sascha. |
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