Hi! On 1/25/06, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Nelson A. de Oliveira [Wed, Jan 25 2006, 12:27:29PM]: > > There is a compressloop utility at > > http://projects.openoffice.nl/downloads/compressloop/ from Paul > > `Rusty' Russell, based on the work of Klaus. It's released under GPL. > > > > It works perfectly (I use it), can be used with pipe, for example: > > > > mkisofs (options_go_here) | compressloop64n -b 65536 -c 9 - KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX > > Yes, you can use it, but you cannot mount that images with current > versions of cloop. Simply because nobody cared to update compressloop to > create the new format, and it also did not support advanced zip library > either.
Good to know this. I didn't know this difference. > > And also doesn't needs to allocate a big amount of memory to work. > > > > I have a work machine with 1GB of RAM and even on that machine I found > > create_compressed_fs a little slow and taking too much RAM. I found > > Using which version of create_compressed_fs? In the meantime I have > rewritten create_compressed_fs (aka advfs) to have (almost) all the > features from compressloop, plus multithreading and network > client/server mode, so you can take the full advantage of > multi(core)-CPU systems and/or a set of network nodes (cluster). I am using create_compressed_fs provided by the package cloop-utils (version 2.02.1+eb.10) from Debian. And advfs looks interesting. Where can I obtain it? Thank you very much. Nelson
