livecd-creator unmounting temp image, running daemons.

Phillip Lougher phillip at lougher.demon.co.uk
Mon Jul 28 21:04:02 UTC 2008


Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Interesting. F7 contains squashfs-tools-3.2-1, vs 3.3-2 in F9 and the
> changelog doesn't say anything too explicit about a break on storage
> format.
> 
> Two things look suspicious - sparse files support and the change in
> default block size.

Both sparse file support and larger block sizes (if used), cause a bump in
filesystem version to 3.1 (from 3.0 used by Squashfs version 3.2).

> Sounds complex. I will try going in the opposite direction: downgrade
> the package on F9 or pass flags to disable the new fanciness.

To force Mksquashfs 3.3 to generate a filesystem compatible with Squashfs 3.2,
you have to specify both the "-no-sparse" and "-b 64K" options.

Phillip





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