file compression on target side

[Mag Gam]

Using Redhat 4.5; I have been researching this for weeks and all signs
and wisemen (such as yourself) point to the Holy Grail -- ZFS!

On a side node, brtfs nor ext4 won't help us too much. Strange that
ZFS is being ported to FreeBSD but a license dispute between GPL and
CDDL? I guess GPL isn't all its cracked out to be... (no flame
intended).

Eitherway, thanks for everyone's time and replies.

TIA



On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Ryan Malayter <malayter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Mag Gam <magawake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ZFS on fuse is just too slow. I suppose I will wait for ZFS on Linux
>> (pipe dream) or try to switch to Solaris 10 on x86
>>
> There will never be ZFS in the Linux kernel because of license
> incompatibilites. The linux answer to ZFS is btrfs, which is still in
> development, and not much of an answer in my opinion ;-).
>
> Also, there does not appear to be any "stock" linux kernel filesystem
> that supports transparent compression read/write. SquashFS is
> read-only. What Linux distribution are you using? It might bundle a
> patch or other filesystems.
>
> I would suggest trying gzip --rsyncable. Compress the files with gzip
> --rsyncable at the source, and rsync should be able to find
> significant matches (especially for updates of log files).
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