Hi everyone.
I did a little more experimenting...
ls only shows the size difference between compressed and uncompressed
files when fiocompress -c (not -cm) is used. du shows the difference
whether -c or -cm is used.
When I run du on the build_data/bootroot and the mounted
sparc.microroot, I see a difference, so compression is being done, at
least on some files.
The "file" command doesn't show a difference between compressed or
uncompressed files, unfortunately, so I can't tell if a small file is
compressed or not. Du reports sizes in 512 or larger units.
Regarding the devfsadm issue, it looks like the lock file
(/etc/dev/.devfsadm-dev.lock) is processed as the svc repository.db file
is. Being that repository.db is a large enough file to see that it is
not being compressed, I conclude that the devfsadm lock file isn't
either. Based on this, what I have done is working.
While it is true that the error I saw earlier dealt with access of the
devfsadm lock file, it was because the root file system is read only.
Not sure how to get around this...
Thanks,
Jack
On 12/20/08 09:40, Jack Schwartz wrote:
> Hi Karen.
>
> Not sure if you are online... I'm in the office (for just a few more
> minutes) and heard your disk spin up...
>
> I have a question: how can I tell whether or not a file has been
> fiocompressed. should it be reflected in the file size reported by ls,
> by the output of some command, that fiocompress -d gives an error or
> not, ???
>
> I can boot my sparc image, but the files which Jan said not to
> fiocompress still give the same errors. E.g.: when I do a devfsadm it
> still says the lock file is on a read-only file system. Yet I didn't
> compress that file, so it should be updatable by devfsadm ... or is
> there something else I'm not doing right?
>
> I'll be leaving shortly, but coming back around 2 for about an hour.
>
> I'd like to post my code review, but want to get past this testing first.
>
> Thanks,
> Jack
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