[Samba] compressed file VFS

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jean-Pierre
<jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Andreas Moroder
>> <andreas.moroder at 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.

John