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