From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QynaB-0004qa-Fc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:24:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E8E721C2EE; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:23:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com (mail-pz0-f42.google.com [209.85.210.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1C621C2C8 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:21:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so1538725pzk.1 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.17.4 with SMTP id k4mr757362pbd.463.1314807719394; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([121.246.205.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i1sm30264415pbe.1.2011.08.31.09.21.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E5E5FA3.7070801@nileshgr.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:51:55 +0530 From: Nilesh Govindarajan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110831 Thunderbird/6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem References: <4E5E5862.1000600@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E5E5862.1000600@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a5901f74f17d11265059a77468fabbd0 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 -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com