πFS

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πfs: Never worry about data again!

πfs is a revolutionary new file system that, instead of wasting space storing your data on your hard drive, stores your data in π! You'll never run out of space again - π holds every file that could possibly exist! They said 100% compression was impossible? You're looking at it!

πfs is dead simple to build:

Firstly, you must install autoconf, automake, libfuse packages in your system. For example, if you have Debian try:

sudo apt-get install autotools-dev sudo apt-get install automake sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev

./autogen.sh ./configure make make install

πfs is dead simple to use:

πfs -o mdd= < metadata directory > < mountpoint >

where the metadata directory is where πfs should store its metadata (such as filenames or the locations of your files in π) and mountpoint is your usual filesystem mountpoint.

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