- remove references to zlib compressed disk images.

Gzipped disk images are too slow to be useful anyway.
  Proper read/write compressed disk image support
  will be implemented after 2.1
This commit is contained in:
Christophe Bothamy 2003-10-29 01:04:27 +00:00
parent 50b768228c
commit 3ff351f4fc

View File

@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Examples:
This defines the type and characteristics of all attached ata devices:
type= type of attached device [disk|cdrom]
path= path of the image
mode= image mode [flat|concat|external|dll|sparse|vmware3|undoable|growing|volatile|z-undoable|z-volatile], only valid for disks
mode= image mode [flat|concat|external|dll|sparse|vmware3|undoable|growing|volatile], only valid for disks
cylinders= only valid for disks
heads= only valid for disks
spt= only valid for disks
@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ This defines the type and characteristics of all attached ata devices:
biosdetect= type of biosdetection [none|auto], only for disks on ata0 [cmos]
translation=type of transation of the bios, only for disks [none|lba|large|rechs|auto]
model= string returned by identify device command
journal= optional filename of the redolog for undoable and volatile disks
Point this at a hard disk image file, cdrom iso file,
or a physical cdrom device.
@ -218,8 +219,6 @@ The mode option defines how the disk image is handled. Disks can be defined as:
- undoable : flat file with commitable redolog
- growing : growing file
- volatile : flat file with volatile redolog
- z-undoable : gziped flat file with commitable redolog
- z-volatile : gziped flat file with volatile redolog
The disk translation scheme (implemented in legacy int13 bios functions, and used by
older operating systems like MS-DOS), can be defined as: