* squashfs on ppc
@ 2005-09-16 21:48 Tolunay Orkun
2005-09-16 22:41 ` Eugene Surovegin
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From: Tolunay Orkun @ 2005-09-16 21:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-embedded
Hi,
Has anyone any positive or negative experience of using squashfs on
PowerPC as initrd?
Our environment is PowerPC 405GP running 2.4.31 kernel. U-Boot is our
bootloader. Any comparison with respect to CramFS?
Best regards,
Tolunay
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* Re: squashfs on ppc
2005-09-16 21:48 squashfs on ppc Tolunay Orkun
@ 2005-09-16 22:41 ` Eugene Surovegin
2005-09-22 20:10 ` Tolunay Orkun
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From: Eugene Surovegin @ 2005-09-16 22:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tolunay Orkun; +Cc: linuxppc-embedded
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:48:09PM -0500, Tolunay Orkun wrote:
> Has anyone any positive or negative experience of using squashfs on
> PowerPC as initrd?
>
> Our environment is PowerPC 405GP running 2.4.31 kernel. U-Boot is our
> bootloader. Any comparison with respect to CramFS?
I use squashfs and squashfs2. Both work just fine on PPC.
They provide significantly better compression ration than cramfs,
although at the expense of some speed (mostly visible during initial
startup of big user-space app).
--
Eugene
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* Re: squashfs on ppc
2005-09-16 22:41 ` Eugene Surovegin
@ 2005-09-22 20:10 ` Tolunay Orkun
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From: Tolunay Orkun @ 2005-09-22 20:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eugene Surovegin; +Cc: linuxppc-embedded
Thanks for the reply. I've built file system images based on ext2,
cramfs and squashfs (2.1).
Uncompressed ext2 image is about 12MB consisting mostly of busybox,
other executables and shared libraries etc. Everything is stripped.
cramfs based image took the least ram allocation but the most flash
space (18% more than gzipped ext2 image).
squashfs was close to cramfs in ram usage but was about equal to gzipped
ext2 image.
Thus, I have found squashfs based initrd to be good blance between ram
and flash.
Eugene Surovegin wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:48:09PM -0500, Tolunay Orkun wrote:
>
>
>>Has anyone any positive or negative experience of using squashfs on
>>PowerPC as initrd?
>>
>>Our environment is PowerPC 405GP running 2.4.31 kernel. U-Boot is our
>>bootloader. Any comparison with respect to CramFS?
>>
>>
>
>I use squashfs and squashfs2. Both work just fine on PPC.
>
>They provide significantly better compression ration than cramfs,
>although at the expense of some speed (mostly visible during initial
>startup of big user-space app).
>
>
>
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