[olug] File Manager/Archiver

[Daniel Linder]

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John Dickson wrote:
> I am looking for a file manager/archive storage/retreival system to
> compress files by date of access. Any ideas?

If you just want to compress them to save space, then a perl script that
scans the directory structure and run bzip2 on the files.  Actually a
"find" command would probably do the trick.

If you need a 'transparent' compressed filesystem then I don't think you
can do that just yet.  The only thing I could find was "ext2compr" but all
the links to it are dead.

A recent Linux Journal magazine article did something with the new
'stackable' filesystem llinks (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6485),
but I haven't noticed a compression module for that...yet. :)

If the data is mostly read-only, you could use the SquashFS filesystem.
It is read-only so you'd have to re-build the image when the data was
updated, but this might work depending on your needs.

Dan

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