From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>,
greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:14:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050321101441.GA23456@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <423727BD.7080200@grupopie.com>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-21 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-14 16:30 [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS Phillip Lougher
2005-03-15 1:06 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-15 1:14 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-15 3:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-15 17:16 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-15 18:21 ` Paulo Marques
2005-03-21 10:14 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-03-21 15:56 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-21 19:00 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-21 18:03 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-21 22:49 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-22 2:41 ` Josh Boyer
2005-03-22 2:58 ` David Lang
2005-03-22 3:04 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22 2:59 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-22 5:32 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-22 3:34 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-22 5:37 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-03-21 22:32 ` Mws
2005-03-21 22:44 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-21 22:54 ` Mws
2005-03-22 3:36 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-22 7:19 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-03-22 5:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-03-21 18:08 ` Mws
2005-03-21 18:54 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-21 22:23 ` Mws
2005-03-21 22:31 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-21 22:47 ` Mws
2005-03-21 22:56 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-15 3:12 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-15 23:25 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-16 0:57 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-16 1:04 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-16 4:19 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-15 5:38 ` Greg KH
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