[GRLUG] LessFS?

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Fri Mar 11 09:50:10 EST 2011


On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 14:22 +0000, Michael Mol wrote: 
> I'll give it a try and get back to the list in a few weeks; it sounds
> like it'd be a good way to store my Rosetta Code snapshots.

It could be a huge boon for our archive server... but trusting critical
data to a FUSE mount?  Makes me squeemish.

On the other hand LessFS2 [apparently - I haven't tried] allows you to
store multiple instances of each block and checksums blocks on read -
which is really cool [most SATA drive firmware is total crap, SATA
drives can't be trusted even in RAID setups].

> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > Mention of this appeared on the CentOS list;  has anyone used LessFS?
> > <https://sourceforge.net/projects/lessfs/>
> > <QUOTE>
> > Lessfs is an userspace (fuse) inline data de-duplicating filesystem for
> > Linux that includes support for lzo or QuickLZ compression and
> > encryption.
> > </QUOTE>



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