Eric Aksomitis wrote:
>
> I can't seem to mount a W98 (or any) Compressed file system. I believe there's a
>Kernel module for this, but it doesn't appear to be included in Mdk 7. I'd like to
>do this, preferably without re-compiling the Kernel. Perhaps Mandrake has an RPM I
>could download and just use insmod ?? I can mount an ISO image file no problem, so
>my mount commands are working.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, I'm pretty good at Linux now but I haven't tackled a
>Kernel re-compile and would prefer not too....
>
> Eric Aksomitis
> http://www.dlcwest.com/~jed/re_answer.shtml
Hmmm,
Well, I haven't seen any such modules. Zlibc does something
similar but in a read-only fashion for loading a few program and
documentation files. With disk space being a lot cheaper than
time, in most cases, I would expect compression to fade into the
background for disk storage except for transmission files, and it
is difficult to conceive of a compressed volume when there is no
concept of "volume" (at least as windows uses it)
zlibc can be accessed here
http://zlibc.linux.lu/index.html
and
http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/fs
has some filesystem information and seems to be involved in
reading weird external volumes through reverse engineering.
I have searched sourceforge, freshmeat, tucows, davecentral, and
linuxstart for information. It doesn't seem that there is a lot
of demand for this particular item, because I found only the
following projects...
Dmsdos
It is at
http://MetaLab.unc.edu/linsearch/lsms/dmsdos-0.9.2.1.html
It may be included in some arcanely titled package of 7.0 (I
never got the Power Pack I ordered), but it is downloadable as an
rpm(no recompiles required). A quick check of cooker and
contribs shows no match, so I imagine there has been very low or
nonexistent demand.
