Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:48:00 +0800 From: Ariff Abdullah <skywizard@time.net.my> To: Axel Scheepers <ascheepe@surf.iae.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: On the fly compression Message-ID: <01012617512403.17166@FreeBSD.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20010126101716.A16754@surf.iae.nl> References: <20010126101716.A16754@surf.iae.nl>
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> Dear sir/madam,
>
> I recently started using FreeBSD instead of Linux. I was used to the feature of
> compressing filesystems on the fly but can't seem to find a way to do that
> using FreeBSD. I've asked several newsgroups but noone knew... > Do you know
> if this feature is implemented or will be ? >
> Thanks in advance,
> Axel
I dont have any idea about compressing the file system (If I'm wrong do correct
me). But you can compress the binary itself using gzip. Just make sure you have
the appropriate kernel with support of executing gzipped compressed binary.
Refer to the LINT.
good luck
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