Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:48:12 +0200 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extending md(4) to allow it use pre-compressed disk image Message-ID: <20010717194812.A804@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> In-Reply-To: <3B52CC08.1B08210F@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:12:17PM %2B0300 References: <3B52CC08.1B08210F@FreeBSD.org>
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Thus spake Maxim Sobolev (sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG): > size could vary), compresses each cluster using zlib and writes > compressed clusters along with information about offset of each > cluster into resulting image. After that compressed image could be put You sure that you don't produce that much overhead with all the additional gzip headers that it doesn't worse the compression? > I would like to know if there is enough interest in integrating this > feature into base system, please let me know what do you think about > it. Can you tell loader to load a mfs-compressed.gz? (I hope so) Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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