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Pavel Machek

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More options Mar 21 2005, 5:20 am

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From: Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz>

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:20:47 GMT

Local: Mon, Mar 21 2005 5:20 am

Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

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Hi!

> >Also, this filesystem seems to do the same thing as cramfs. We'd need to
> >understand in some detail what advantages squashfs has over cramfs to
> >justify merging it. Again, that is something which is appropriate to the
> >changelog for patch 1/1.

> Well, probably Phillip can answer this better than me, but the main
> differences that affect end users (and that is why we are using SquashFS
> right now) are:
> CRAMFS SquashFS

> Max File Size 16Mb 4Gb
> Max Filesystem Size 256Mb 4Gb?

So we are replacing severely-limited cramfs with also-limited
squashfs... For live DVDs etc 4Gb filesystem size limit will hurt for
sure, and 4Gb file size limit will hurt, too. Can those be fixed?

Pavel
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