On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jean-Pierre <jean-pierre.an...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > John Drescher wrote: >> >> 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. > > And ntfs (ntfs-3g).... >
Compression now works with that? For a long time it was not supported. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
