On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 18:42 -0600, Tom Lisjac wrote:
On Apr 5, 2005 7:00 AM, Steve Grubb sgrubb@redhat.com wrote:
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 09:46, Neville Richter wrote:
As a boot CD builder I have used cloop and squashfs and I would hope that someone would add squashfs to the standard Fedora Core kernel distribution before starting this project.
You don't have to do it like this. You can use mkzftree during the last stages to create compressed file system that the kernel knows how to read.
That's an interesting approach that I thought about using on another project. As a comparison I built the same CD using both zisofs and cloop. IIRC, cloop ended up providing 10 to 15 percent better compression. Unfortunately cloop has it's problems too. One of them has been keeping the Debian oriented sources compiling against the Fedora kernels.
I like Neville's suggestion of having squashfs support in the kernel. This would provide both the convenience of zisofs and the compression advantages of cloop.
The best way to get this done is to try to get squashfs into the upstream kernel. There has been some motion on this recently:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.1/2040.html
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