On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:23 PM, John Rouillard
<rouilj-backuppc AT renesys DOT com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:46:39PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote:
>> I recently heard about lessfs, which runs on top of FUSE to provide
>> a file system that does block-level de-duplication.  See:
>
> What is the status of FUSE for the various bsd's and solaris? Last
> time I looked they weren't really ready for prime time. If that is
> still the case, moving to anything FUSE based would basically mean
> that BackupPC is a linux server only based solution right?

This lessfs does seem like a very elegant solution for separating
BackupPC's efficient storage from the rest, but restricting it to
Linux only would be quite a pity. However, maybe it is possible to use
lessfs's backend (without the fuse glue) directly in BackupPC without
going through the filesystem (like BackupPC now has a builtin
filesystem view too)? I assume the backend should be quite portable.

-- 
Pieter

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