Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > >> Actually FreeBSD does support a compressed (read only) filesystem, >> geom_uzip(4) This is used by freesbie if I remember rightly. >> However it does mean you cannot just mount and browse the install cd >> with the generic kernel, and I'd guess it bumps up the base system >> requirements. >> > > You could, because geom_uzip is a module :) > > That said you _would_ duplicate things because what is on the live disk > is not in a form suitable for pkg_add'ing to the installed system. > > Indeed, putting the already compressed package files in a compressed disk would be unlikely to save much space either.
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