nbdkit-gzip-plugin1

Usage

Deprecated

The gzip plugin is deprecated in nbdkit ≥ 1.22.17 and will be removed in nbdkit 1.26. It has been replaced with a filter with the same functionality, see nbdkit-gzip-filter(1). You can use the filter like this:

 nbdkit file --filter=gzip FILENAME.gz

Overview

"nbdkit-gzip-plugin" is a file serving plugin for nbdkit(1).

It serves the named "FILENAME.gz" over NBD, uncompressing it on the fly. The plugin only supports read-only connections.

Note that gzip files are not very good for random access in large files because seeking to a position in the gzip file involves uncompressing lots of data. A more practical method to compress large disk images is to use the xz(1) format and nbdkit-xz-filter(1).

Parameters

[file=]FILENAME.gz

Serve the compressed file named "FILENAME.gz".

This parameter is required.

"file=" is a magic config key and may be omitted in most cases. See "Magic parameters" in nbdkit(1).

Files

$plugindir/nbdkit-gzip-plugin.so

The plugin.

Use "nbdkit --dump-config" to find the location of $plugindir.

Version

"nbdkit-gzip-plugin" first appeared in nbdkit 1.0.