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20*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Dd November 28, 2007
21*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Dt DCFS 4FS
22*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Os
23*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sh NAME
24*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Nm dcfs
25*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Nd Compression file system
26*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sh SYNOPSIS
27*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.In sys/filio.h
28*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.In sys/fs/decomp.h
29*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sh DESCRIPTION
30*bbf21555SRichard LoweThe
31*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Nm
32*bbf21555SRichard Lowefilesystem is a layered filesystem that you use to compress data when writing to
33*bbf21555SRichard Lowea file and decompress upon read.
34*bbf21555SRichard LoweThe primary function of the
35*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Nm
36*bbf21555SRichard Lowefilesystem is to compress individual files when constructing a boot archive and
37*bbf21555SRichard Lowewhen reading or booting from the archive.
38*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sh INTERFACE STABILITY
39*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sy Uncommitted
40*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sh SEE ALSO
41*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr ufs 4FS ,
42*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr attributes 7 ,
43*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr boot 8 ,
44*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr bootadm 8 ,
45*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr fiocompress 8
46*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sh NOTES
47*bbf21555SRichard LoweThe
48*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Nm
49*bbf21555SRichard Lowecompression/decompression file system works only with UFS.
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