From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: John Ernberg <john.ernberg@actia.se>
Cc: "buildroot@buildroot.org" <buildroot@buildroot.org>,
Jonas Blixt <jonas.blixt@actia.se>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] fs/squashfs: Allow to disable compression of the filesystem
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:42:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241230224251.73600ba3@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241227103623.1608053-1-john.ernberg@actia.se>
On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:36:35 +0000
John Ernberg <john.ernberg@actia.se> wrote:
> Devices with large amounts of flash but operating in connectivity-
> constrained areas can benefit from using uncompressed images as this
> allows delta updates using binary diff algorithms.
>
> Connectivity-constrained areas in this context are defined as areas
> where the connection is very slow, unstable, etcetera, where it is
> difficult to transfer data in large scale.
>
> Add a "none" option to the compression menu and map it to the mksquashfs
> -no-compression flag to enable this feature.
> Disable the ability to select extreme compression in this case as that
> makes absolutely no sense combined with no compression.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Ernberg <john.ernberg@actia.se>
> ---
> fs/squashfs/Config.in | 6 ++++++
> fs/squashfs/squashfs.mk | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
Thanks a lot for this patch, makes sense, so I've applied to our master
branch!
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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