[Trac #127] Compressed Temporary File Systems

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#127: Compressed Temporary File Systems
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 Reporter:  bluefoxicy   |        Owner:  blizzard
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new     
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:          
Component:  distro       |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment (by bluefoxicy):

 More research done, notes made here.

 '''FuseCompress''' seems to decompress the entire file at once, so it will
 have problems with big files.  In other words, it's very brute-force and
 unintelligent.

 '''compFUSEd''' has its own issues, namely Gismo doesn't pass some of the
 benchmarks and the old version is old.  GISMO compresses in chunks; but
 it's slow as crap according to the README.  The original compFUSEd needs a
 different copy of the daemon's binary and configuration file to have
 different configurations.

 '''LZOlayer''' is block based and has support for zlib and lzo2.  It seems
 to be well designed, but there is warning to always pass -s to it because
 multi-threaded mode causes file system corruption.  It seems to work very
 well with both LZO and zlib.

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