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...
>
> I think that's rather unfair, Squashfs is significantly better than
> cramfs. The main aim of Squashfs has been to achieve the best
Yes, it *is* rather unfair. Sorry about that. But having 2 different
limited compressed filesystems in kernel does not seem good to me.
> compression (using zlib of course) of any filesystem under Linux - which
> it does, while also being the fastest. Moving beyond the 4Gb limit has
> been a goal, but it has been a secondary goal. For most applications
> 4Gb compressed (this equates to 8Gb or more of uncompressed data in most
> usual cases) is ok.
Okay, having limit on 4GB compressed is slightly better (and should
mean that SquashFS would actually be usefull to me).
> >For live DVDs etc 4Gb filesystem size limit will hurt for
> >sure, and 4Gb file size limit will hurt, too. Can those be fixed?
>
> Almost everything can be fixed given enough time and money.
> Unfortunately for Squashfs, I don't have much of either. I'm not paid
> to work on Squashfs and so it has to be done in my free time. I'm hoping
> to get greater than 4Gb support this year, it all depends on how much
> free time I get.
Well, out-of-tree maintainenance takes lot of time, too, so by keeping
limited code out-of-kernel we provide quite good incentive to make
those limits go away.
Perhaps squashfs is good enough improvement over cramfs... But I'd
like those 4Gb limits to go away.
Pavel
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