On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:11 AM, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-advanced/data-compression/ -- John M. Drescher -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba