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Hey gentoo guys

I'm a Mandrake user myself, but I'm working on putting up a
file/web/database server at home to feed my Windoze desktop (music making
and games) and my Mandrake laptop (work and everything else).

The nature of the data that it should be serving as a fileserver is just
asking to be compressed, like you'd do it in Windoze's NTFS if Windoze were
worthy of running as any kind of server.

I've searched a while back for on-the-fly compression loops, like squashfs
or gcloop if they were read AND write on-the-fly. I can't remember exactly,
and my memory may be playing tricks on me, but I think that there was such
a loop for Gentoo? This is why I was thinking that Gentoo would be nice as
the OS for my server. I like the idea of Gentoo in the first place, and if
I weren't still such a relative noob, it'd most definitely be the system on
my laptop instead of Mandrake.

But anyways, is my memory playing tricks on me or is there indeed an
on-the-fly read and write capable compression loop for Gentoo, and if there
is, can it be combined with cryptoloop to provide compression and
encryption?

Thanks,
Daniel

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DanielEKFA wrote:
> Hey gentoo guys
>
> I'm a Mandrake user myself, but I'm working on putting up a
> file/web/database server at home to feed my Windoze desktop (music making
> and games) and my Mandrake laptop (work and everything else).
>
> The nature of the data that it should be serving as a fileserver is just
> asking to be compressed, like you'd do it in Windoze's NTFS if Windoze were
> worthy of running as any kind of server.
>
> I've searched a while back for on-the-fly compression loops, like squashfs
> or gcloop if they were read AND write on-the-fly. I can't remember exactly,
> and my memory may be playing tricks on me, but I think that there was such
> a loop for Gentoo? This is why I was thinking that Gentoo would be nice as
> the OS for my server. I like the idea of Gentoo in the first place, and if
> I weren't still such a relative noob, it'd most definitely be the system on
> my laptop instead of Mandrake.
>
> But anyways, is my memory playing tricks on me or is there indeed an
> on-the-fly read and write capable compression loop for Gentoo, and if there
> is, can it be combined with cryptoloop to provide compression and
> encryption?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
Would it be possible to pipe all data read/written through
gzip/bnzip/rzip? With rzip compression would be slow but probably also
most effective.
-JM

Juho-Mikko Pellinen wrote:

> DanielEKFA wrote:
>> Hey gentoo guys
>>
>> I'm a Mandrake user myself, but I'm working on putting up a
>> file/web/database server at home to feed my Windoze desktop (music making
>> and games) and my Mandrake laptop (work and everything else).
>>
>> The nature of the data that it should be serving as a fileserver is just
>> asking to be compressed, like you'd do it in Windoze's NTFS if Windoze
>> were worthy of running as any kind of server.
>>
>> I've searched a while back for on-the-fly compression loops, like
>> squashfs or gcloop if they were read AND write on-the-fly. I can't
>> remember exactly, and my memory may be playing tricks on me, but I think
>> that there was such a loop for Gentoo? This is why I was thinking that
>> Gentoo would be nice as the OS for my server. I like the idea of Gentoo
>> in the first place, and if I weren't still such a relative noob, it'd
>> most definitely be the system on my laptop instead of Mandrake.
>>
>> But anyways, is my memory playing tricks on me or is there indeed an
>> on-the-fly read and write capable compression loop for Gentoo, and if
>> there is, can it be combined with cryptoloop to provide compression and
>> encryption?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Daniel
>>
> Would it be possible to pipe all data read/written through
> gzip/bnzip/rzip? With rzip compression would be slow but probably also
> most effective.
> -JM

I don't know... Remember, I'm a Mandrake user, so I'm not used to do much
myself How would that work in practice? I would like it to be
transparent to a client reading/writing files on the server?
--
I win!

"Yeah dad, we'd rather have a live sissy mincing around the house than some
dead hero anyday!"
- Bart Simpson

"I pitty the fool who derives self esteem from mocking other people's
clothes!"
- Mr. T