Subject: Re: execing gzipped files (was Re: Netpliance Iopener booted with NetBSD...)
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/23/2000 12:39:41 
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 03:34:52PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:

 > > it probably kills demand paging though.  :)
 > 
 > I daresay. :)  And machines so cramped for disk space that they have to
 > resort to this trick are likely to be the ones shortest on swap. :(

Depends.  e.g. the boot blocks are able to "seek" to arbitrary byte offsets
in compressed files, right?  Demand paging could probably still be done.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>