Re: squashfs compressed file system update?
On Wed Feb 19, 2003 at 05:16:48PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:08:45 -0600 (CST)
> Drew Scott Daniels <umdanie8@cc.UManitoba.CA> wrote:
>
> > Would squashfs work? I doubt this is an optimal compression, but it
> > might be better than alternatives. Currently the best free solution
> > might be based on PPMd which has been packaged into Debian.
> >
>
> Im not confident about squashfs, i think the best solution is
> initrd.romfs.gz for normal installs, but squashfs or cramfs might be
> good for lowmem installs, i havent looked into squashfs yet, not sure
> when i will get time.
I have found using cramfs helps quite a lot in low memory
situations, but the penalty you pay is the filesystem itself
(i.e. the stuff you store on the boot media) is larger. So
its a tradeoff between runtime memory use (cramfs is very
good) and boot media storage space (cramfs is less compact
than a gzipped ext2 fs). I expect a similar thing applies
to squashfs.
-Erik
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