Date: 21 Jul 2003 15:09:58 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISO9660/RockRidge transparent de-/compression Message-ID: <44vftvpugp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030719114942.2401A43F85@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20030719114942.2401A43F85@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net> writes: > The reason this is useful to me is this: I regularly write backups on cd-rw; > my cd-rw-writer can rewrite only at 2x-speed. Which really sucks if you have > to store several hundred megabytes of data. ;-/ Using transparent > de-/compression can save me some space on the rw and thus some time. > > Unfortunately, the documentation of cdrtools-2.00 and zisofs-tools-1.0.4 > says, currently only Linux is capable of transparently reading such cds. > Does anyone know if this will become a feature of FreeBSD one day? > I would really appreciate that... =) I don't know of anybody working on that. I don't consider it very useful, because I just compress my backup files before writing them to the CD...
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