On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Andreas Moroder <andreas.moro...@sb-brixen.it> wrote: > Hallo, > > we have a clinical system that generate lot of files that once written are > never changed. This file consume lot of disk and tape space*, so my idea was > to compress this files. The problem is that it can happen, that the users > have to open this files later. > > Is there a VFS module for samba that show gzipped** read only files as if > they were standard files ? > > On top of the fuse modules mentioned a previous link, there are also 3 filesystems under linux that support compression. btrfs, reiser4 and zfs. All like the fuse modules are considered experimental and I would avoid reiser4 since the main developer Hans Reiser is in jail.
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