Hi!
> >Also, this filesystem seems to do the same thing as cramfs. We'd need to
> >understand in some detail what advantages squashfs has over cramfs to
> >justify merging it. Again, that is something which is appropriate to the
> >changelog for patch 1/1.
>
> Well, probably Phillip can answer this better than me, but the main
> differences that affect end users (and that is why we are using SquashFS
> right now) are:
> CRAMFS SquashFS
>
> Max File Size 16Mb 4Gb
> Max Filesystem Size 256Mb 4Gb?
So we are replacing severely-limited cramfs with also-limited
squashfs... For live DVDs etc 4Gb filesystem size limit will hurt for
sure, and 4Gb file size limit will hurt, too. Can those be fixed?
Pavel
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