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I apologize if this doesn't show up in the thread properly, but I've been receiving the summary. I'll change that today.
[quote] Is there something particularly wrong with squashfs? I would think that if we were to change at all, we should probably go to cramfs which is now included in the Linux kernel. Squashfs was originally chosen because at the time of the first livecd, cloop wasn't building correctly with linux-2.6.8.1, and squashfs seemed to provide better compression. [/quote] That answers part of my question.
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Sorry if this sounded harsh
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I work for a company with 180+ employees living in 26+ countries with 30+ nationalities. Developing a thick hide when dealing with email and IRC is a job requirement ;) I never meant to say that squashfs was a bad choice, I only want to understand it.
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I don't know much about cloop, but I believe that's what knoppix uses. But, there is a varient of the squashfs kernel patch with lzma, aka 7-zip. 7-zip is 5-15% better compression than bzip2. I'm not sure about the performance penalty though. Generic squashfs has slighly better compression than cloop, an squashfs has better performance, so it looks like the best choice..
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My 'trial by fire' PC is a PII 400MHz, 64MB of RAM. My first impression is that Knoppix 3.6 (3.8 got too heavy for my liking) boots faster than the LFS LiveCD. If you want to do a quick trial I recommend DSL instead: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/.
cloop was written by Klaus Knopper. It is being included in most LiveCD distributions (Ubuntu, Gentoo) and in SuSE 9.3. One of the cons is that it is very poorly documented and the syntax follows the old loop way. First you have to run cloop and then mount. At least that was the case the last time I checked.
Last but not least, I've booted Knoppix CDs in PCs with no swap just fine. I've even remastered Knoppix CDs without all the swap area and free space that they claim necessary (see my 'trial by fire' PC specs above). In my opinion, the READMEs and documentation pages are being overcautious.
Sorry for the long posting, but I answered all the messages in a single one. Won't happen again.
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