RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On backup and restore, aside from the comments already mentioned, I suggest you pay careful attention to the available space on your XS. You should have about 2GB free space on your XS for each XO. If you don't have enough

Re: [Server-devel] RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Right now, the jffs2 fs can outstore the backup storage on highly compressible content. Not a good look, and leading to all sorts of bad scenarios. I would get a real journal and check for real which is the

Re: [Server-devel] RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a real journal and check for real which is the compressibility of the data that is actually there. My uninformed guess is that most of the content is already compressed: png, zip, pdf (some/most), odt, ogg,

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a real journal and check for real which is the compressibility of the data that is actually there. My uninformed guess is that most of

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Nov 10 2008, at 11:08, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On backup and restore, aside from the comments already mentioned, I suggest you pay careful attention to the available space on your XS. You should have about

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a real journal and check for real which is the compressibility of the data that is actually there. On a test machine with a good cross-section of activity documents, I gzipped all the files in the datastore

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread pgf
martin wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a real journal and check for real which is the compressibility of the data that is actually there. On a test machine with a good cross-section of activity documents, I gzipped all the

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: martin wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a real journal and check for real which is the compressibility of the data that is actually there. On a test machine with a

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread pgf
bill wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: martin wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a real journal and check for real which is the compressibility of the data that is actually there.