Ext3 Compression

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There is a patch for the ext3 that allows for transparent compression but seems to be a bit buggy and unreliable by all accounts. Does anyone know of any way that I can run a 'live archive' through samba of compressed data?

Other than using backuppc, I'm drawing a blank...
 
It would seem that now even backuppc has forsaken me!

BackupPC no-longer works with CentOS 5.2 - Some of the dependencies need to be rolled back to the point where you're better off finding the disks for 5 rather than tackle any possible inconsistencies
 
You need to look at other filesystems if you want native compression.

The only reliable way would be ZFS on Solaris.
On Linux you're looking at Btrfs (unfinished), Reiser4 (unsupported) and NTFS (fuse).
 
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Thanks, hadn't come across Btrfs before. I'll do a bit of reseach on those and see where that gets me. I've got a few plans that will buy me some time so I may simply wait for something to come along and migrate when it does.
 
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