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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:15:44 -0500
From:      Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is there compressed fs?
Message-ID:  <20060420071544.68ff151d.ota@j.email.ne.jp>
In-Reply-To: <20060419215948.8acfdf60.ota@j.email.ne.jp>
References:  <20060419215948.8acfdf60.ota@j.email.ne.jp>

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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:59:48 -0500
Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> wrote:

> Is there a compressed file system available in FreeBSD?
> 
> I tried "mdconfig -ocompress" but it doesn't seem saving any spaces.
> Does anyone know what is the status of this, if it works, and if so,
> how it works?

Thanks to a couple of people who directly sent me a response.

I was aware of GEOM_UZIP and mkuzip.  However, the problem is
it is read-only file system.  I am looking for read-write
compressed file system.

Thanks,
Hiro 



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