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

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:26 -0700, Jane Dogalt wrote:
> --- Toshio Kuratomi <toshio at tiki-lounge.com> wrote:
> I suppose my opinion is that it is a trivial complexity addition, one which
> kadischi currently possesses (though it could be 'cleaner'), and why revisit
> later, when we can just clean up and extend what is currently there?

It's hardly trivial.  Supporting filesystems ends up being quite a bit
of work over time to ensure that all new features are supported
everywhere.

> Obviously ext2 is never going to beat squashfs on size.  One would guess
> uncompressed it would win on speed.  Clearly at the moment it's the only one
> that supports xattrs.  Then throw in that you can (I think) run it on top of
> cloop as yet another option.

Actually, I would expect that it won't really end up winning on speed as
your CPU is going to be far faster than your CD drive.  Also, cloop
isn't an option as long as it's not in the main kernel.  xattr support
for squashfs is planned and adding it shouldn't be that hard if someone
wanted to do the work.  The maintainer has been very amenable to such
things in previous discussions with him.

Jeremy