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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:51:55 +0530
From: Nilesh Govindarajan <contact@nileshgr.com>
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On 08/31/2011 09:20 PM, Space Cake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to create some kind of "on the fly" compressed
> filesystem for backup purposes? My files are getting bigger and bigger
> but my external drive stays the same :)
Btrfs supports on the fly compression
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