Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:14:42 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS |
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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?
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