Re: [osol-discuss] lofi questions?

2007-11-13 Thread Darren Dunham
Kyle McDonald wrote: How does one go about increasing the number of filesystem types 'mount' understands? /usr/sbin/mount is really more of a wrapper program. The heavy lifting is done by /usr/lib/fs/fstype/mount. So if you create a 'uberfs' filesystem, you might want a

Re: [osol-discuss] lofi questions?

2007-11-12 Thread Kyle McDonald
A different question. What is the recommended way to make lofi device to file mappings permanent? I remember something about creating your own RC script to create the devices at boot time, but has there been any developments in this area I might have missed? -Kyle Kyle McDonald wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] lofi questions?

2007-11-12 Thread Kyle McDonald
Kyle McDonald wrote: A different question. What is the recommended way to make lofi device to file mappings permanent? I remember something about creating your own RC script to create the devices at boot time, but has there been any developments in this area I might have missed?

Re: [osol-discuss] lofi questions?

2007-11-09 Thread UNIX admin
What compression types are supported? Probably only gzip and maybe compress. Would be nice is bzip2 was supported though. with gzip hwoever and it didn't like it so I'm not sure what compression is used in a .isz. Anyone know? Can I use the same .isz on both types of systems? Probably

Re: [osol-discuss] lofi questions?

2007-11-09 Thread Darren J Moffat
Kyle McDonald wrote: Hi, I recently read that the option for compression on loopback devices was put back recently. This is good news. Where to look for more info? like: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/loficc/ and for the approved specification:

Re: [osol-discuss] lofi questions?

2007-11-09 Thread Dave Miner
Kyle McDonald wrote: Hi, I recently read that the option for compression on loopback devices was put back recently. It hasn't actually been integrated into the mainline sources yet (should be soon, probably build 80), though it's obviously included in the developer preview because that's

Re: [osol-discuss] lofi questions?

2007-11-09 Thread Dave Miner
Kyle McDonald wrote: Dave Miner wrote: We aren't currently using this on the Solaris DVD iso's, and don't presently have any plans to do so, unless you count the eventual replacement of the current Solaris media structure with one defined by Caiman, which is some time off yet. I was just

Re: [osol-discuss] lofi questions?

2007-11-09 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Kyle McDonald wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/569/materials/spec-final/ What compression types are supported? I'm specifically hoping to use it on compressed .iso files. In the PC world there are several utilities that work