On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 15:10:58 -0600, Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to wrote:
Phillip Lougher posted a patch set for lzma + squashfs this morning on lkml. So it seems very likely that 2.6.33 will get this feature and that it would be possible for it to be in F13.
Today Lougher posted some info indicating there is a devel branch of squashfs-tools that supports lzma compression. Having livecd-creator use lzma compression shouldn't be too difficult. There are some questions about how it might use it. (e.g. optional or always, what about building images with older kernels, etc.)
I started pestering people to let me do stuff. I'd like to take a shot at building a rawhide squashfs-tools using the devel version and supplying some patches to livecd-creator to make this work. Hopefully to have something testable before the feature freeze. Hopefully enough in advance to let spin owners consider taking advantage of extra space that may be provided.
My feeling is that this isn't really a feature, but since it impacts the spins I think we need a good idea on whether or not it will work acceptably pretty early on.