[Samba] compressed file VFS

[Chris Weiss]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:44 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've had some good compression from lessfs ( http://www.lessfs.com/ ),
>>  not samba specific but is quite transparent, and POSIX compliant.
>
> I thought that lessfs was about datadeduplication. Is there compression as well?

it does both, though I'm really only seeing compression on my email
archive storage, maybe my block size is too high, or maybe i don't
have as many mass emails as I thought I had.

for compression, it supports qlz, lzo, bzip and deflate