Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:39:04 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.0 released |
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Hi,
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:25:44PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > I have two routers, ADM5120-based Edimax and LinkSys WRT54G v5, both of > which have a mere 2MB of flash, and both use SquashFS to maximize that > space. And both are el cheapo, slow embedded processors that run far > slower than 300Mhz. I look askance at anyone who wants to make an > arbitrary filesystem design decision imposing tons of bytesex upon these > lowly devices.
100% agreed. I love squashfs because it's tiny and efficient, and I would not want to see it getting heavy.
BTW, has someone tried to port LZMA to squashfs ? I tried so on bzImage + initramfs, and got something like a 27% smaller image. That would mean about 500 kB on a 2 MB image.
> Jeff
Willy
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