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SubjectRe: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS
Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
>>>Also, this filesystem seems to do the same thing as cramfs. We'd need to
>>>understand in some detail what advantages squashfs has over cramfs to
>>>justify merging it. Again, that is something which is appropriate to the
>>>changelog for patch 1/1.
>>
>>Well, probably Phillip can answer this better than me, but the main
>>differences that affect end users (and that is why we are using SquashFS
>>right now) are:
>> CRAMFS SquashFS
>>
>>Max File Size 16Mb 4Gb
>>Max Filesystem Size 256Mb 4Gb?
>
>
> So we are replacing severely-limited cramfs with also-limited
> squashfs...

I think that's rather unfair, Squashfs is significantly better than
cramfs. The main aim of Squashfs has been to achieve the best
compression (using zlib of course) of any filesystem under Linux - which
it does, while also being the fastest. Moving beyond the 4Gb limit has
been a goal, but it has been a secondary goal. For most applications
4Gb compressed (this equates to 8Gb or more of uncompressed data in most
usual cases) is ok.

> For live DVDs etc 4Gb filesystem size limit will hurt for
> sure, and 4Gb file size limit will hurt, too. Can those be fixed?

Almost everything can be fixed given enough time and money.
Unfortunately for Squashfs, I don't have much of either. I'm not paid
to work on Squashfs and so it has to be done in my free time. I'm hoping
to get greater than 4Gb support this year, it all depends on how much
free time I get.

Phillip

> Pavel

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