-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-31 at 22:02 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
I know that, but that's not what I want. I want compressed storage.
Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. I guess you've explored using a compressed filesystem?
Of course, but there is no such thing in Linux. Ok, there are a few, but either they are read only, or only accept a limited size and number of files. A read/write compressed filesystem for general use does not exist in Linux, AFAIK. For backup use it would be sufficient if files were compressed, a bit at least; things like email compress a lot easily. Yea, I know, storage is cheap nowdays. But compressing is even cheaper, and in my country next year they'll charge 12..13€ extra per HD unit as kind of multimedia tax, to pay the authors of the songs I never buy nor copy nor listen to. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHeYXUtTMYHG2NR9URAvlVAJ42YzgXIi3AcXy0tdbbYV31n2Ef9gCdGGui 0i19TuUMSWzx4pyk4bbqnDA= =fldP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----