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SubjectRe: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

Hi Pavel,

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 08:00:44PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Perhaps squashfs is good enough improvement over cramfs... But I'd
> like those 4Gb limits to go away.

Well, squashfs is an *excellent* filesystem with very high compression ratios
and high speed on slow I/O devices such as CDs. I now use it to store my root
FS in initrd, and frankly, having a fully functionnal OS in an image as small
as 7 MB is "a good enough improvement over cramfs".

If the 4 GB limit goes away one day, I hope it will not increase overall
image size significantly, because *this* would then become a regression.
Perhaps it would simply need to be a different version and different format
(eg: squashfs v3) just as we had ext, then ext2, or jffs then jffs2, etc...

Cheers,
Willy

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