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GEOM_UZIP(4) Device Drivers Manual GEOM_UZIP(4)

NAME

geom_uzip —
GEOM based compressed disk images

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
options GEOM_UZIP
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): 
geom_uzip_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The geom_uzip 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_uzip to detect compressed images which have been created with mkuzip(8) and presented to the kernel as a logical disk device via md(4). geom_uzip creates a unique md#.uzip device for each image.
The geom_uzip device is subsequently used by the FreeBSD kernel to access the disk images. The geom_uzip driver does not allow write operations to the underlying disk image. To check which md(4) devices match a given geom_uzip device: 
# geom uzip list 
Geom name: md1.uzip 
Providers: 
1. Name: md1.uzip 
   Mediasize: 22003712 (21M) 
   Sectorsize: 512 
   Mode: r1w0e1 
Consumers: 
1. Name: md1 
   Mediasize: 9563648 (9.1M) 
   Sectorsize: 512 
   Mode: r1w0e1

SEE ALSO

GEOM(4), md(4), geom(8), mkuzip(8)

AUTHORS

The geom_uzip driver was written by Max Khon ⟨fjoe@FreeBSD.org⟩. This manual page was written by Ceri Davies ⟨ceri@FreeBSD.org⟩.
October 9, 2006 Debian