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| From: | Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system? | ||
| Date: | Fri, 12 May 2006 06:35:18 | ||
| Message-Id: | 7573e9640605112325o5a2aab9eldf90a6f04fa26b6c@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system? by "W.Kenworthy" |
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| 1 | On 5/11/06, W.Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
| 2 | > What can I use for a compressed file system? I am looking at setting up |
| 3 | > a loopback mounted filesystem that I want to use to store backups into. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | >From what I can tell, there are no really good compressing filesystems |
| 6 | available currently. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | But why do you need to do this in the filesystem? Why not use a |
| 9 | compressible format for your backups like tar, cpio, or (my favorite) |
| 10 | dar? |
| 11 | |
| 12 | -Richard |
| 13 | |
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| 15 | gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system? | William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system? | plougher <phillip.lougher@×××××.com> |