From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 10 12:56:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E11FB37B400; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897D443ED8; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:55:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0451.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.196] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17SNYh-0004Gb-00; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:55:31 -0700 Message-ID: <3D2C9107.C11F9F09@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:54:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Nik Clayton , Wes Peters , Dan Moschuk , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <3D27A296.D58FB4B4@softweyr.com> <20020707145116.GC5610@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Nik Clayton writes: > > gzipped UFS filesystem images that can be mounted on a vn/md device. . . > > That would be the ideal solution... But how would you implement it, given that compression is not size deterministic? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message