Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:20:43 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS |
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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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