Richard Fish write:
> From what I can tell, there are no really good compressing filesystems
available currently.
I would disagree, Squashfs is an advanced read-only compressing filesystem,
which uses numerous techniques to obtaIn high compression ratios while also
being fast. Some of the techni
William Kenworthy wrote
> This is what I currently use: But I dont have room for two archives, and
> this method doesnt keep versions. Trying to keep incrementals using
> this has proven to be a disaster.
Even though Squashfs is read-only (and so is tar, cpio etc.), you can append
to pre-existi
ted leslie wrote:
> big negative (unless fixed in recent releases) is you need enough ram/VM
> to hold the entire
> fs (to be compressed) in memory. So if you have 512MB ram and a 1GB VM
> allocation,
> the biggest fs you can archive using cloop/squashfs would be 2.5GB
> (approx), that compresses
William Kenworthy wrote, regarding Squashfs:
> and you need at least the
> uncompressed space to create the image ... not useful here.
Wrong, you need sufficient disk space to create the compressed filesystem,
that is all.
Phillip Lougher
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