GEOM_UNCOMPRESS(4) | FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual | GEOM_UNCOMPRESS(4) |
NAME
geom_uncompress — GEOM based compressed disk imagesSYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
options GEOM_UNCOMPRESS
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
geom_uncompress_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The geom_uncompress framework provides support for compressed read only disk images. This allows significant storage savings at the expense of a little CPU time on each read. Data written in the GEOM label area allows geom_uncompress to detect compressed images which have been created with mkulzma(8) or mkuzip(8) and presented to the kernel as a logical disk device via md(4). geom_uncompress creates a unique md#.uncompress device for each image.The geom_uncompress device is subsequently used by the FreeBSD kernel to access the disk images. The geom_uncompress driver does not allow write operations to the underlying disk image. To check which md(4) devices match a given geom_uncompress device:
# geom uncompress list Geom name: md0.uncompress Providers: 1. Name: md0.uncompress Mediasize: 52428800 (50M) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w0e0 Consumers: 1. Name: md0 Mediasize: 20864000 (20M) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w0e0
AUTHORS
The geom_uncompress driver was written by <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> and <ray@FreeBSD.org>. This manual page was written by <loos@FreeBSD.org>.January 9, 2014 | FreeBSD |