On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Andreas Moroder <[email protected]> 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 ? > > > Bye > Andreas > > * Disks are cheap, but the are no more disk-slots in the server and the > server has to be up 24*7 so we can not simply change the disks > > ** bzip2 would be preferable because of the better compression, but the > orginal size is not stored in the header so I assume it can not be used for > this purpose > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >
I've had some good compression from lessfs ( http://www.lessfs.com/ ), not samba specific but is quite transparent, and POSIX compliant. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
