On 10/22/2012 11:03 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
I already asked the data center whether they can do the squash ... they can't. They have a deal with a supplier providing the infrastructure for the NFS system.
Create a sparse file on NFS and mount it as a loopback filesystem. Provided that the NFS isn't backed by NTFS, this should work just fine. Some output trimmed:
[root@vagabond home]# dd if=/dev/zero of=newfs bs=1 count=1
[root@vagabond home]# ls -l newfs -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1000000000001 Oct 27 10:36 newfs
[root@vagabond home]# mkfs -t ext4 newfs mke2fs 1.42.3 (14-May-2012) newfs is not a block special device. Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
[root@vagabond home]# mount newfs /mnt/
[root@vagabond home]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% /dev/loop0 961238684 204436 912206124 1% /mnt