From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 26 2: 0: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C6E37B402 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:59:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0QA33e74606; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 02:03:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 02:03:03 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ariff Abdullah Cc: Axel Scheepers , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On the fly compression Message-ID: <20010126020303.A74576@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <20010126101716.A16754@surf.iae.nl> <01012617512403.17166@FreeBSD.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01012617512403.17166@FreeBSD.mine.nu>; from skywizard@time.net.my on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 05:48:00PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 05:48:00PM +0800, Ariff Abdullah wrote: > 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 FreeBSD doesn't currently support compressed filesystems (and the gzipped binary kernel option only works for the legacy a.out binary format). Use the gzexe(1) utility. Kris --=20 NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6cUtXWry0BWjoQKURAijlAJ9l+RJ26RghhvmiP4HZpEV//pnURACfclgG EX9J2S8O3Wpm6q6Yb9yrq6s= =Hdhu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message