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diff --git a/hurd/translator/storeio.mdwn b/hurd/translator/storeio.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8e26a959 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/storeio.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 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 +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +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*. + +It relies heavily on [[libstore]]. + + +# Examples + +You can make a file's content available as some block device (where `foo` is +the name of the file to map): + + settrans -ca node /hurd/storeio -T file foo + +You can even `ungzip` files on the fly (`bunzip2` is available as well): + + settrans -ca node /hurd/storeio -T gunzip foo.gz + +You can use the *typed store*, to create filter chains (of course this example +is kind of useless since you could use the `gunzip` store directly): + + settrans -ca node /hurd/storeio -T typed gunzip:file:foo.gz |