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Bug 351391

Summary: compFUSEd is a compressed overlay filesystem
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Brandon Captain <caibbor>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/compf/
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Brandon Captain 2011-01-11 21:01:29 UTC
compFUSEd is a compressed overlay filesystem for Linux that supports both transparent read and write operations. In other words, it provides transparent compression of your files while storing them on an existing filesystem. You can add compression to your existing filesystem in under 5 minutes. There is no need to reformat, and no kernel patches are required.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




other info about compiling/configuring: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/137234
Comment 1 Brandon Captain 2011-01-11 21:06:58 UTC
fuseCompress seems to be more mature and already has an ebuild in bugzilla:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127433
Comment 2 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-01-12 20:42:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 127433 ***
Comment 3 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-01-12 20:44:49 UTC
grr, sorry I've confused the names of the pkgs