On Sun, 04 (06/00) at 10:20 +0000, Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
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Hi.
The Filesystems HOWTO, 3.9, mentions thsfs.
ftp://ftp.ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de/pub/os/linux/local/thsfs.tgz
Regards
tom
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