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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:44:52 +0100
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On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem.
> I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems,
> so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date.
> 
> I've come across CompFused which seems to be just what I'm looking for,
> but it's buggy not maintained anymore.
> 
> Similarly, fusecompress
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127433
> doesn't build on an up-to-date Gentoo system and doesn't
> look maintained either.
> 
> There would be sys-fs/zfs-fuse but that sounds like overkill to me.
> 
> Are there any other packages?
> 
> Many thanks for a hint,
> Helmut.
> 

reiser4. Bonus, it only tries to compress stuff that can be compressed (the 
test is quick&dirty and sometimes wrong, but most of the time good enough).