On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:23 PM, John Rouillard <rouilj-backu...@renesys.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:46:39PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: >> I recently heard about lessfs, which runs on top of FUSE to provide >> a file system that does block-level de-duplication. See: > > What is the status of FUSE for the various bsd's and solaris? Last > time I looked they weren't really ready for prime time. If that is > still the case, moving to anything FUSE based would basically mean > that BackupPC is a linux server only based solution right?
This lessfs does seem like a very elegant solution for separating BackupPC's efficient storage from the rest, but restricting it to Linux only would be quite a pity. However, maybe it is possible to use lessfs's backend (without the fuse glue) directly in BackupPC without going through the filesystem (like BackupPC now has a builtin filesystem view too)? I assume the backend should be quite portable. -- Pieter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
