Subject: Re: Added compression handling to vnd driver
To: Cliff Wright <cliff@snipe444.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/30/2005 09:43:24
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Cliff Wright wrote:
> It was pointed out that I did not include the man page change for
> vnconfig. Here at least is an example of usage:
>
> vnconfig -z vnd0 /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX
> mount -t cd9660 /dev/vnd0a /mnt
>
> The file /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX is the compressed file. Since the file
> is not a gzip file, maybe -z is the wrong letter to use, as it generally
> implies a gzip file.
> Is their a better?

No idea, do FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Linux/Solaris/whatever have anything similar, 
then use the letter they have.

How does one create the /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX above?
"mkisofs -o x dir ; gzip x ; mv x.gz KNOPPIX"?


  - Hubert

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