On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 11:20 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 22:04 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 20:47 -0600, J. Hartline wrote:
> > > It should be back up soon, as someone is working on that last I checked.
> > >
> > > If you need a snapshot there is one here:
> > >
http://autopsy.thetabox.org/SOURCES
> > > dated 03272006.
> >
> > Thanks autopsy!
> >
> > Here's two patches. The first one enables squashfs. In order to use it
> > you invoke kadischi with the --filesystem option::
> >
> > kadischi --filesystem=squashfs fc5-repo fedora.iso
>
> Realistically, something like a --filesystem is the wrong approach. If
> squashfs is "right", then we should go down that route. Trying to
> encode the differences between squashfs and zisofs is the path to
> madness.
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.
Jeremy