From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: [Announce] Squashfs 2.1 released (compressed filesystem) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:01:12 +0100 Message-ID: <20041212110112.GE17946@alpha.home.local> References: <41BA0245.4050502@lougher.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" Return-path: Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:35594 "EHLO willy.net1.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261773AbULLLQM (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:16:12 -0500 To: Phillip Lougher Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41BA0245.4050502@lougher.demon.co.uk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hi Phillip, > Many smaller improvements have also been made in this release, and there > are, for the first time, the results of some tests of Squashfs lookup > and I/O performance against Zisofs, Cloop, and CRAMFS. I've checked you tests, numbers are appealing :-) BTW, you need to apply the following patch to build mksquashfs with gcc < 3. Thanks for still improving this great FS ! Willy --- squashfs2.1/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c.orig Sun Dec 12 12:10:35 2004 +++ squashfs2.1/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c Sun Dec 12 12:14:55 2004 @@ -526,11 +526,10 @@ else if(type == SQUASHFS_LDIR_TYPE) { int i; unsigned char *p; + squashfs_ldir_inode_header *dir = &inode_header.ldir, *inodep; if(byte_size >= 1 << 27) BAD_ERROR("directory greater than 2^27-1 bytes!\n"); - - squashfs_ldir_inode_header *dir = &inode_header.ldir, *inodep; inode = get_inode(sizeof(*dir) + i_size); inodep = (squashfs_ldir_inode_header *) inode;