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[Micah Yoder <micah.yoder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another possibility...
I just found something called 'fusecompress' that uses FUSE to mount a 
filesystem that is automatically compressed.  Did a mongodump into that 
and it seemed to work.  Not sure how much we want to get into supporting 
that kind of thing though. :/

Also the FS needs to be mounted with fusecompress to even read it.  I 
could not read it with standard tools after unmounting it.

I began the search hoping to find a FUSE filesystem that simply creates 
a tarball.  Should be possible as long as it only allows creating and 
writing to one file at a time, then throws a write error an on attempt 
to write to a file that has been closed.  (Actually reads would probably 
have to fail too, but that is fine for our purposes.)  Maybe writing it 
in fuse-python would be doable...

Or just hack mongodump to be more sane.

But maybe I'm overthinking this... :/