[Fedora-livecd-list] squashfs -- anyone have a pristine tree?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:28 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 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