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The Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) project allows you install new filesystems without touching your Linux kernel. The filesystems run as regular programs, allowing them to use shared libraries and perform tasks that would be difficult from inside the Linux kernel. FUSE filesystems look just like regular filesystems to other applications on the machine. In this article I'll look at compFUSEd, which is a compressed FUSE filesystem. Using compFUSEd can save a significant amount of disk space for files that are highly compressible, such as many text documents and executable files.
Take a look at your 500GB hard drive: what's taking so much space? Videos. Pictures. And other already compressed data. You might gain some space on your mail archive, but it's still disappointingly little. I claim that these days it's not worth it...
For backup schemes, I would say compression is a good idea, especially if the device has high endurance. :)
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