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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Compressed Filesystem for Linux Post 302820887 by DGPickett on Thursday 13th of June 2013 03:10:13 PM
Old 06-13-2013
I wonder if you can achieve compressed backup with some sort of hybrid mirror, where files on one side are compressed once quiescent, and on the other side, are left uncompressed. Compression would occur in the background, not at write time.
 

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fusermount

FUSERMOUNT(1)						  Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE)					     FUSERMOUNT(1)

NAME

       fusermount - mount and unmount FUSE filesystems

SYNOPSIS

       fusermount [OPTIONS] MOUNTPOINT

DESCRIPTION

       Filesystem  in  Userspace  (FUSE)  is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. It also
       aims to provide a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem implementations.

       fusermount is a program to mount and unmount FUSE filesystems.

OPTIONS

       -h  print help.

       -V  print version.

       -o OPTION[,OPTION...]
	   mount options.

       -u  unmount.

       -q  quiet.

       -z  lazy unmount.

SEE ALSO

       mount(8), mount.fuse(8), ulockmgr_server(1).

HOMEPAGE

       More information about fusermount and the FUSE project can be found at <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>.

AUTHOR

       FUSE was written by Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>.

       This manual page was written by Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>.

2.8.6								    2011-10-23							     FUSERMOUNT(1)
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