[TriLUG] loopback mount a gzipped file without decompressing beforehand?

[Alan Porter]

> If I've got a compressed filesystem image, say cd.iso.gz , is it possible
> to get mount to mount it without first decompressing it?

Short answer is "no".

The loop driver is looking for an uncompressed file.  It needs to be 
able to seek to a specific point in the file.  Gzip is a stream 
compression technique that does not handle seeking to an arbitrary point 
in the stream without uncompressing from the beginning.


Alan



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