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[Samuel Sieb]

On 05/22/2013 01:45 PM, John Reiser wrote:
> On 05/22/2013 01:24 PM, drago01 wrote:
>> Which means you'd be better off with file system level compression.
>
> Yes, if you have administrator privileges and strategic planning,
> and if you can tolerate a read-only fs (or your fs can handle overwrites),
> then compression of the filesystem itself often saves more space.
> (Sometimes UPX still wins because of the 128KiB window in squashfs;
> the UPX window is often larger, and sometimes infinite.)
>
Since the context here was Live images, wouldn't it be a good idea to 
use a filesystem that allows compression?  The image is going to be 
read-only anyway.  It would allow more content and probably faster loading.