On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:51, 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? Have you tried reiserfs? As long as it is NOT mounted with the "notail" option it can sometimes save 50% on space compared to ext3/jfs/xfs depending on your usage.
There is also a possiblility of using LVM2 snapshots also if you have LVM2 devices already set up. I'm not sure how dirvish is for backup and I'm not sure how good a loopback backup to a file really is anyway. That depends on the consistency of at least a partition anyway. Maybe you are trying to solve the wrong problem? -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
