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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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