[Samba] compressed file VFS

[Marcello Romani]

Il 31/03/2011 09:36, Andreas Moroder ha scritto:
>> A similar question has been posted here (with an answer):
>>
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/5212/can-i-transparently-compress-some-files-on-a-samba-share
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH
>>
> Hello,
>
> AFAIK the FUSE filesystems have in common the problem that they are read
> only. I have to write to this share too.
>
> My idea was a samba VFS that, when it finds a compressed file with a
> certain extension ( say .gzvfs ) allows a normal read access to this
> file but allows to read and write to other files
>
> Bye
> Andreas
>

The article I linked above has a link to this page:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=CompressedFileSystems

where 4 fuse-based compressed filesystems with R/W support are mentioned.

HTH

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Marcello Romani