What can I use for a compressed file system? I am looking at setting up a loopback mounted filesystem that I want to use to store backups into. Compression is needed as space will become a limitation in the future (I want to do a whole system backup that so far is 2:1 compressed via tar.bzip2. I am thinking of using dirvish into a compressed loopback mount - but how do I set up a compressed fs?
Squashfs, cloop and zisofs are readonly, I have looked at encfs (looks nice), but it doesnt seem to compress, just encrypt and I dont want the overhead, or need it. e2compr looks a bit like abandonware - what else is available? BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
