topic File Systems Modes in Operating System - Linux

File Systems Modes

Fadia Almarei — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:38:08 GMT

Dear All

i need to mount a filesystem in a mode at which any file will be written to it will be compressed, is this applicable and how to do it if YES.

BR;
Fadia

Re: File Systems Modes

Mike Stroyan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:46:34 GMT

You could have a look at the FuseCompress project.
https://developer.berlios.de/projects/fusecompress/

Re: File Systems Modes

Jeeshan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:07:26 GMT

you can write a sample script, which will check that file system an interval of time and if finish then script will compress the file.

Re: File Systems Modes

Fadia Almarei — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:48:33 GMT

the OS that i have is RHEL AS 4.6 64 bit , is this fusecompress works with it ?

Re: File Systems Modes

Mike Stroyan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:19:14 GMT

It should be possible, but not simple, to get FuseCompress working with
redhat 4.6. That distribution does not include fuse filesystem support.
Some folks have built fuse modules for specific redhat 4 kernels.
But you would need a new update to those modules every time you
installed a redhat kernel update. And you would be running with
non-redhat code in your kernel. I see fuse rpms for 4.6 amd64 at-
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/14/idka/70048/datan/2008-10-11

The FuseCompress software itself is beta maturity and something that you
build from source.

(This is the point where you should consider that the feature you are
looking for is out on the frontier, far from civilized system administration. :)