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

Toshio Kuratomi toshio at tiki-lounge.com
Mon Apr 10 19:53:46 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:28 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:28 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > 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.

Patch attached that removes the option to use zisofs.  Additionally:

* livecd-linuxrc:
  - Mount the squashfs with -oro to cleanup a warning message.
* kadischi.1:
  - Document the requirement on mksquashfs instead of mkzftree.

-Toshio
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