ISO9660/RockRidge transparent de-/compression

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com
Mon Jul 21 12:10:07 PDT 2003


Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon at 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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