[Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Aug 12 23:18:29 UTC 2010


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> I hope to occasionally push back a little against this. When LZMA squashfs
> makes it upstream (it looks like it won't happen in time for F14) we will
> probably gain about 10% on what we can fit in a given size image.

It's quite sad that we're waiting for upstream there. The feature exists, we 
could ship it, yet we prefer crippling our live images by dropping more and 
more applications to meet the size constraints with obsolete compression 
technology. What happened to the leading-edge Fedora?

> Another change that could happen is droppong the embedded ext3 image and
> use squashfs directly. (Selinux should now be usable on squashsfs file
> systems.) That might gain us a bit more space.

Won't that break liveinst?

        Kevin Kofler



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