cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15706364

Transparent compression layer on Linux?

My use-case: streaming video to a Linux mount and want compression of said video files on the fly.

Rclone has an experimental remote for compression but this stuff is important to me so that’s no good. I know rsync can do it but will it work for video files, and how I get rsync to warch the virtual mount-point and automatically compress and move over each individual file to rclone for upload to the Cloud? This is mostly to save on upload bandwidth and storage costs.

Thanks!

  • exu@feditown.com
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    5 months ago

    You could use BTRFS, ZFS or BcacheFS to do compression on the filensystem level, but it’s not gonna compress video files or other already compressed media.