On 11/25/05, ICMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a lot of large files moving into the space on a regular basis, > and they need to be stored for a long time in active disk space. I have > to get into and out of these files frequently to monitor activity and do > trend analysis. It would be much easier to store them in a compressed > volume rather than in compressed files because I use numerous text > tools, not all of which can reach inside zipped files. > > A complimentary question would be, does OpenBSD support encrypted > volumes or allow encrypted files to be mounted as disk volumes? > Mounting compressed files as disk volumes or compressing a disk volume > would be solved using the same technique, so where one exists, the other > should as well.
I have create a compressed drive with a 1GB backing store. I write a very large file consisting of 10 billion zeroes (which compress rather well) to the compressed drive. I then start overwriting the large file with a mostly uncompressible stream of random data. What happens next?
