On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:28 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:28 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Sure -- If someone says "do it", I'll submit a patch to remove the
> special-casing for zisofs :-) It already makes me uncomfortable that I
> test the squashfs case but not zisofs.
>
> It could be helpful if people test squashfs vs zisofs and see if there's
> any time when squashfs doesn't generate faster/smaller/"better" CD
> images; then it would be a no-brainer to remove the less performant
> filesystem.
The one thing that's "better" about zisofs is that it's transparent
and
you don't have to do any shenanigans with a loopback mount.
Patch attached that removes the option to use zisofs. Additionally:
* livecd-linuxrc:
- Mount the squashfs with -oro to cleanup a warning message.
* kadischi.1:
- Document the requirement on mksquashfs instead of mkzftree.
-Toshio