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| author | jbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de> | 2024-10-16 19:30:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2024-11-12 00:29:51 +0100 |
| commit | f5f1898cf0bd6410c4bace9f8cb6235493f819df (patch) | |
| tree | 62296cf8a51e3f9ad7070a9ecbdeb5a44f1222d6 | |
| parent | 71edca069981565c4c1d5844bcbcd8f39558ca00 (diff) | |
edit the translator/storeio page.
* hurd/translator/storeio.mdwn: I added a bit more description from an
old irc log.
Message-ID: <20241016233039.17856-4-jbranso@dismail.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator/storeio.mdwn | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/translator/storeio.mdwn b/hurd/translator/storeio.mdwn index 8e26a959..fc39932f 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/storeio.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/storeio.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2024 Free Software +Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -8,7 +9,17 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] -`storeio` is a *translator for devices and other stores*. +<!-- http://richtlijn.be/~larstiq/hurd/hurd-2010-08-25 --> + +`storeio` is a translator for devices and other stores. You can use +it for user-level access to disks via `/dev/hd0s1` instead of kernel-based +device access. + + $ settrans -ca foo /hurd/storeio myfile + +Now, foo will look like a device, which gives you transparent +decompression, partition handling, etc. It is a little like Linux's +`losetup`, and you don't have to be root to use it! It relies heavily on [[libstore]]. |