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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:43:02 +0200
From:      Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mount bzip2 disk image
Message-ID:  <b0e86d99-acc8-85fd-751b-8dec2fc709fe@netfence.it>
In-Reply-To: <96ce2d8b-f310-96bc-394c-007541401c57@fjl.co.uk>
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On 9/13/23 13:57, Frank Leonhardt wrote:

> Such a thing does exist, sort-of. It's the GEOM_UZIP driver from FreeBSD 
> 13 onwards. However I'm pretty sure it only works in images compressed 
> by its own mkuzip utility (and that doesn't include bzip2 having just 
> RTFM). Never tried it myself.

Ehh.. "sort of".
I had seen it, but it doesn't do exactly what I need.

> If you unpack it to a ZFS dataset with compression enabled, the 
> compression ZFS uses is pretty good so you might find that the disk 
> space isn't the problem you think it might be.

I'd still need 2x the space (compressed + uncompressed) :(

  bye & Thanks
	av.



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