On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, draeath wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 07:04:06PM -0500, Eben King wrote:
>>
>>> I downloaded a bunch of PDBs (3D chemical models) from the nice folks at
>>> wwdb.com and their rsync script. It's around 7.3 GiB when broken into
>>> subdirectories and each subdir is tarred and bzipped, but around 40-45
>>> GiB decompressed. That's the sort of thing I can't justify keeping
>>> around uncompressed, but the viewer doesn't dive into archives
>>> automatically.
>>> Is there any sort of filesystem that stores data compressed then
>>> uncompresses it automatically, sort of like Stacker for Linux? I guess
>>> if there were software which enabled random access on a compressed file
>>> and I loopback-mounted that file, that would work.
> If the data won't be changed, look into squashfs. Note that with the right
> patches, that can use lzma on the fly (which is slow, but beats the pants off
> bzip and gzip)
Thanks, that looks like it'll do the trick. Now I just have to find (or
make) a filesystem with 8-10 GiB of free space.
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