On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:00 -0500, William Ballard wrote: --snip-- > Just gzip each file down to < 1GB. Buy a couple 200GB hard drives and put > them in an ordinary computer. Keep a years worth of data online. --snip-- On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:21:26PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote: --snip-- > Please don't respond saying "just gzip each file" duh... I > already thought of that. --snip-- That was certainly clear to me. Anyone else confused? WRT the actual topic, squashfs is supposed to handle files up to 4 GB without problems. I have not heard of any 2 GB file problems with it, but my interest in squashfs has been purely academic. I've never run it in a business environment. While it is a read-only filesystem, since you are primarily wanting to keep ARCHIVE data on there, the fact that it is read-only might not be that big of a problem. When you want to add more archive data you just use mksquashfs to append it and you're all set to go. This could be automated through a script called by your tape backup program for example. Hope that helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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