Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 02:12:48 -0500 From: Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: cloop or zisofs or a better way? Message-ID: <bdf25fde0602032312g5b3e193co378788b912a944f3@mail.gmail.com>
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I'm looking for a way to compress about 20GB of ASCII data in to a read-onl= y file that is as small as possible. I found 'cloop' and 'zisofs', though I could not find anything on the net where FreeBSD people were using them. They are in the ports tree, so I figure somebody is. Is there a preferred way under FreeBSD of doing this? I've heard of people using "loopback" connections, and I guess that's what cloop is. Or maybe there is a way to mount a tgz file? I'm using FreeBSD 6.x. Also, is there a crossplatform way of doing this? For example, if I had a compressed volume, would I be able to read it under Linux and maybe Windows? I dont really need crossplatform, but was curious.
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