Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:13:22 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content Message-ID: <48BFDEF2.7050108@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200809042237.13436.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080904085415.GG15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <48BFB564.2000802@unsane.co.uk> <200809042237.13436.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > >> Actually FreeBSD does support a compressed (read only) filesystem, >> geom_uzip(4) This is used by freesbie if I remember rightly. >> However it does mean you cannot just mount and browse the install cd >> with the generic kernel, and I'd guess it bumps up the base system >> requirements. >> > > You could, because geom_uzip is a module :) > > That said you _would_ duplicate things because what is on the live disk > is not in a form suitable for pkg_add'ing to the installed system. > > Indeed, putting the already compressed package files in a compressed disk would be unlikely to save much space either.
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