Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:58:26 +0800 From: "Sherry Zhang" <yuleopen@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there any highly compressed filesystems [like squashfs] supported directedly by FreeBSD? Message-ID: <68bfdc900610300758r71fc65e7y41f702498387f0fd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45461F73.8080909@unsane.co.uk> References: <68bfdc900610300633l326f6b46oc5bc63b975afd52f@mail.gmail.com> <45461F73.8080909@unsane.co.uk>
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Vince thx for reply, I think it use cloop. and I know how to mount cloop in GNU/Linux just mount -t cloop will do . but how can I do it in freebsd? Sherry Zhang On 10/30/06, Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> wrote: > > 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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