Memory requirements

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:36, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 13:33:06 -0700,
>  Jeremiah Summers <jmiahman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes Literally I did, but as Adam just pointed out running Live just
>> dumps the squashfs image to the drive and slaps grud on it. I'm not
>
> It actually dumps the ext4 image on the drive and then resizes it to
> fit the available space. The ext4 image is stored compressed inside
> of a squashfs file system on the live image.
>
> It would be nice to get rid of the embedded ext4 image now that squashfs
> supports special files and extended attributes (needed for selinuix labels),
> but there are some other roadblocks that will block that change for the near
> future.

Heheh. If the majority of installs occur from live images.. would that
make squashfs the new Fedora filesystem :).





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