From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29 Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:55:08 -0800 Message-ID: <4966925C.2040702@zytor.com> References: <20090108165029.GA10951@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Phillip Lougher , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:39476 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753696AbZAHX7O (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:59:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090108165029.GA10951@infradead.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> >> Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem. It compresses metadata >> and data, and uses up to 1 MiB block sizes for greater compression. > > That seems pretty fast for something only posted this week and not > even in -next. > It is in -next, but, to be fair, it has trivial impact on the rest of the system, which should also be considered. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.