writeable compressed file system? [Archive]

vaclinux

March 23rd, 2009, 04:48

Dear guys,
This thread followup from here (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=2777).
geom_uzip is current filesystem that is used, but it is read only.
I need to have write-able compressed file system,
Any idea what it should be,?
So far my goggling effort not really help me much.
Thanks you,

cy@

March 23rd, 2009, 19:09

Try ZFS using the compression property. Of course this only works if you don't care what format your filesystem is in. If you need a compressed msdos or UFS image geom_uzip is your only solution, albeit read-only.

blah

March 24th, 2009, 00:27

Try ZFS using the compression property. Of course this only works if you don't care what format your filesystem is in. If you need a compressed msdos or UFS image geom_uzip is your only solution, albeit read-only.Are you saying that UFS on top of ZVOL will not be compressed at all?