Monthly Archives: September 2011

This version of Lessfs adds support for Googles snappy compression. http://code.google.com/p/snappy/ Although QuickLZ and LZO are very fast, snappy is truly amazing. Lessfs with snappy: time cp /tmp/Some_software_DVD.iso /fuse/ real 0m11.214s user 0m0.021s sys 0m2.863s Lessfs with QuickLZ 1.5.0: time … Continue reading →

Lessfs-1.5.6 now comes with support for forcing the rotation of a replication logfile. echo 1 >/.lessfs/replication/rotate_replog It also fixes a recently introduced bug that caused the replication logfile not to rotate after REPLOG_DELAY had expired. A new feature is that … Continue reading →

This version of lessfs contains an important bug fix. As of lessfs version 1.4.10 a bug causes lessfs not to reclaim space when used with the file_io backend.

This version of lessfs improves robustness when lessfs is used with replication. Previously data corruption of the slave could occur after crashes or unclean shutdowns of either the master or the slave.