			     May 4, 2001

User tools for zisofs:

The user tools for zisofs come in two parts: a utility "mkzftree" and
a patch for cdrtools-1.10 (which includes mkisofs).

First create a directory tree containing compressed files:

	mkzftree input_dir compressed_dir

mkzftree will not overwrite an existing directory; you may want to "rm
-rf" the directory tree if you are doing this from a script:

Second, invoke the patched mkisofs with the -z option:

	mkisofs -z [other options] -o compressed.iso compressed_dir

Note that if there are files you do not want compressed (for example,
files involved in booting, or README files you want to be readable
under all circumstances) you can simply put them in a separate tree
and not run mkzftree on that tree.

mkzftree will not compress files that end up larger when compressed;
if you want it to compress the files anyway, you can give the -f
option to mkzftree.

mkzftree also accepts a -u option (uncompress), which can be used to
convert a compressed tree back to normal form.  This can be used to
read a zisofs CD-ROM on a machine without zisofs kernel support.

This version of mkzftree supports a -p option (parallelize.)
Specifying -p and a parallelism (e.g. -p4) allows up to four files to
compress in parallel.  Depending on your setup and your data set size,
this might speed things up if you are not completely I/O bound.  Use
-p0 to completely disable parallel execution; this is the default.

