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On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:51, 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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Have you tried reiserfs? As long as it is NOT mounted with the "notail" |
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option it can sometimes save 50% on space compared to ext3/jfs/xfs depending |
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on your usage. |
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There is also a possiblility of using LVM2 snapshots also if you have LVM2 |
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devices already set up. I'm not sure how dirvish is for backup and I'm not |
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sure how good a loopback backup to a file really is anyway. That depends on |
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the consistency of at least a partition anyway. Maybe you are trying to |
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solve the wrong problem? |
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