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28.Dd April 28, 2021
29.Dt GEOM_UZIP 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm geom_uzip
33.Nd "GEOM based compressed disk images and partitions"
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35To compile this driver into the kernel,
36place the following line in your
37kernel configuration file:
38.Bd -ragged -offset indent
39.Cd "device xz"
40.Cd "options zstd"
41.Cd "options GEOM_UZIP"
42.Ed
43.Pp
44Alternatively, to load the driver as a
45module at boot time, place the following line in
46.Xr loader.conf 5 :
47.Bd -literal -offset indent
48geom_uzip_load="YES"
49.Ed
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The
52.Nm
53framework provides support for compressed read-only
54disk images.
55This allows significant storage savings at the expense of
56some CPU time on each read.
57Data written in the GEOM label area allows
58.Nm
59to detect compressed images which have been created with
60.Xr mkuzip 8
61and presented to the kernel as a logical disk device via
62.Xr md 4 .
63.Nm
64creates a unique
65.Pa md#.uzip
66device for each image.
67.Pp
68.Nm
69is not limited to supporting only
70.Xr md 4
71images.
72The image can also reside on a block device.
73.Pq For example, a disk, USB flash drive, DVD-ROM, etc .
74The appropriate device node will appear with the
75.Pa .uzip
76suffix.
77.Bd -literal -offset indent
78# gpart show da0
79=>      0  7833600  da0  BSD  (3.7G)
80        0  2097152    1  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
81  2097152  5736448       - free -  (2.7G)
82# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1G da0
83da0b added
84# dd if=/tmp/20160217_dcomp_zcomp.uzip bs=256k of=/dev/da0b
853190+1 records in
863190+1 records out
87836331008 bytes transferred in 111.021489 secs (7533055 bytes/sec)
88# fsck -t ffs /dev/da0b.uzip
89** /dev/da0b.uzip (NO WRITE)
90** Last Mounted on /mnt
91** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
92** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
93** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
94** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
95** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
9697455 files, 604242 used, 184741 free (2349 frags, 22799 blocks,
97   0.3% fragmentation)
98# mount -o ro /dev/da0b.uzip /mnt
99# df /dev/da0b.uzip
100Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
101/dev/da0b.uzip   3155932 2416968 738964    77%    /mnt
102.Ed
103.Pp
104The
105.Nm
106device is subsequently used by
107.Fx
108kernel to access the uncompressed data.
109The
110.Nm
111driver does not allow write operations to the underlying disk image.
112To check which
113.Dq providers
114match a given
115.Nm
116device:
117.Bd -literal -offset indent
118# geom uzip list
119Geom name: md1.uzip
120Providers:
1211. Name: md1.uzip
122   Mediasize: 22003712 (21M)
123   Sectorsize: 512
124Consumers:
1251. Name: md1
126   Mediasize: 9563648 (9.1M)
127   Sectorsize: 512
128
129Geom name: da0b.uzip
130Providers:
1311. Name: da0b.uzip
132   Mediasize: 3355443200 (3.1G)
133   Sectorsize: 512
134Consumers:
1351. Name: da0b
136   Mediasize: 1073741824 (1.0G)
137   Sectorsize: 512
138.Ed
139.Pp
140.Nm
141allows mounting the root file system from a compressed disk partition by
142setting the
143.Dv vfs.root.mountfrom
144tunable.
145See
146.Xr loader.conf 5
147for details.
148.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
149Several flags are provided for tracing
150.Nm
151I/O operations and TOC parsing via the following sysctls.
152.Bl -tag -width indent
153.It Va kern.geom.uzip.debug
154Log level.
155Zero disables logging.
156Higher values enable more verbose debug logging for
157.Nm .
158Supported levels are from 0 (no logging) to 4 (maximum amount of logging).
159.It Va kern.geom.uzip.debug_block
160Log operations involving compressed cluster number.
161.El
162.Sh SEE ALSO
163.Xr GEOM 4 ,
164.Xr md 4 ,
165.Xr geom 8 ,
166.Xr mkuzip 8
167.Sh HISTORY
168Zstd support was added in
169.Fx 13.0 .
170.Sh AUTHORS
171.An -nosplit
172The
173.Nm
174driver was written by
175.An Max Khon Aq Mt fjoe@FreeBSD.org .
176The block de-duplication code as well as some
177.Nm
178driver optimizations have been contributed by
179.An Maxim Sobolev Aq Mt sobomax@FreeBSD.org .
180The LZMA decompression support and CLOOP 3.0 support have been added by
181.An Aleksandr Rybalko Aq Mt ray@FreeBSD.org .
182.Pp
183This manual page was written by
184.An Ceri Davies Aq Mt ceri@FreeBSD.org .
185