On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 at 19:48, Matti Pulkkinen <mkj...@utu.fi> wrote: > to, 2021-06-10 kello 14:52 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users kirjoitti: > > Now the fun part: I would like the files on the > > backup flash drive to be compressed. Do I lose > > my file comparison feature? > > > > Can I do this? > > > > I don't think rsync can peer into compressed archives for file > comparison, and a quick search in the manual didn't yield anything for > such a purpose with the search terms that I came up with. One other > option would be to put btrfs on the flash drive, and then enable > compression on the filesystem. >
I concur, and can add that btrfs compression on flash is generally much faster than uncompressed for a linux system, but not for other use cases such as internally compressed netcdf4 files. > > > -- > Terveisin / Regards, > Matti Pulkkinen > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > -- George N. White III
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