https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461356 Summary: please check fusecompress for design issue and add a warning on installation/use Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: devzero@web.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- fusecompress is a nice idea/tool, but from what i know the software has a severe design issue. say, you store a 5gb file on /fusecompress. now open the file and change some bytes inside. under the hood, the whole file get`s rewritten/recompressed. so this compression is not as transparent as it should be (i.e. compression is whole-file-based and not block-based). this may work for many scenarious, but my bring you in severe trouble if you don`t know about that limitation and want to used fusecompress for storing large files which gets random r/w access (databases, virtual machine virtual disks etc) i`d suggest to remove it from the standard repository. at least there should be some noticeable "warning sign" to inform about this limitation. maybe i`m wrong, but i have worked with milan swoboda quite a while ago and reported lots of bugs which got mostly fixed, but iirc the problem with large files getting rewritten as a whole remained unresolved. please close this bugreport if this is fixed in the meantime (which i assume is not, because i would expect it would need a huge redesign) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.