Re:DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system
by gnosek on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:22PM
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Is this viable as a backup/archive format? Would it make sense to e.g. have an incremental backup as a DwarFS file, referring to the base backup in another DwarFS file?
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Re:DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system
by iforgotpassword on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:44PM
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I guess something like borgbackup would be better suited for this.
You could theoretically try to build this with dwarfs, by using overlayfs and then compressing the upper layer again with dwarfs, but that sounds pretty fragile and cumbersome.