Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:51:15 +0000 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Sherry Zhang <yuleopen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there any highly compressed filesystems [like squashfs] supported directedly by FreeBSD? Message-ID: <45461F73.8080909@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <68bfdc900610300633l326f6b46oc5bc63b975afd52f@mail.gmail.com> References: <68bfdc900610300633l326f6b46oc5bc63b975afd52f@mail.gmail.com>
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Sherry Zhang wrote: > Hi,all: > > We built a software for GNU/Linux system and use squashfs file system to > fit > 1.5G files into a single CD. to use the CD, just > mount -o loop /dev/cdrom /mnt > mount -o loop -t squashfs /mnt/file.squash /the/path > will do the job. > > Now we also want include the BSD binary. I switched to freebsd 2 weeks ago > and do not know anything abount it. so I want to ask is there any highly > compressed filesystem like cramfs or squashfs [we think a live CD should > not > ask a user to install any software, so filesystems directedly supported by > FreeBSD are perferred] ? Which one is better [I mean compression rate] ? > Can > anyone gives me a hint? > I think you want mkuzip (and geom_uzip) have a read on man mkuzip and see what you think. Not sure how good the compression is though. Might be worth talking to the freesbie people (http://www.freesbie.org/) as i think they may use this and they're the FreeBSD liveCD experts ;) Vince > Thank you > Sherry Zhang > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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