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`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]].
# 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
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