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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... For live DVDs etc 4Gb filesystem size limit will hurt for sure, and 4Gb file size limit will hurt, too. Can those be fixed? Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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