From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 17 10:48:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (kawoserv.kawo2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.180.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF60937B405; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:48:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@big.endian.de) Received: from zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.181.28]) by kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA18649; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:48:14 +0200 Received: by zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8703114AF5; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:48:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:48:12 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extending md(4) to allow it use pre-compressed disk image Message-ID: <20010717194812.A804@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> References: <3B52CC08.1B08210F@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B52CC08.1B08210F@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:12:17PM +0300 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Maxim Sobolev (sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG): > size could vary), compresses each cluster using zlib and writes > compressed clusters along with information about offset of each > cluster into resulting image. After that compressed image could be put You sure that you don't produce that much overhead with all the additional gzip headers that it doesn't worse the compression? > I would like to know if there is enough interest in integrating this > feature into base system, please let me know what do you think about > it. Can you tell loader to load a mfs-compressed.gz? (I hope so) Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message