Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:43:02 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount bzip2 disk image Message-ID: <b0e86d99-acc8-85fd-751b-8dec2fc709fe@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <96ce2d8b-f310-96bc-394c-007541401c57@fjl.co.uk> References: <d29db23f-d20a-7e03-1498-4ff02344243d@netfence.it> <96ce2d8b-f310-96bc-394c-007541401c57@fjl.co.uk>
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On 9/13/23 13:57, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > Such a thing does exist, sort-of. It's the GEOM_UZIP driver from FreeBSD > 13 onwards. However I'm pretty sure it only works in images compressed > by its own mkuzip utility (and that doesn't include bzip2 having just > RTFM). Never tried it myself. Ehh.. "sort of". I had seen it, but it doesn't do exactly what I need. > If you unpack it to a ZFS dataset with compression enabled, the > compression ZFS uses is pretty good so you might find that the disk > space isn't the problem you think it might be. I'd still need 2x the space (compressed + uncompressed) :( bye & Thanks av.
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