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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 07:28:38 +0100
From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Squashfs released (a highly compressed filesystem)
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:51:50AM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> 4.  Full 32 bit uids/guids are stored (4 bits stored in inode, uses a 
> lookup table, to give 48 uids/16 gids).  File sizes upto 2^32 are 
> supported.  Timestamp info is stored. Cramfs truncates uids to 16 bits, 
> uids to 8 bits.  Cramfs files sizes are upto 2^24.  No timestamp info. 
> Squashfs takes advantage of metadata compression to have more info with 
> smaller metadata overhead.

Why limiting to 2GB? AFAIR you wanted to use a cramfs-like
filesystem for backups. Are videos and large data bases not worth
of backing up?

It seems to be good work. So I really wait for Al Viros comments ;-)

Regards

Ingo Oeser
-- 
Science is what we can tell a computer. Art is everything else. --- D.E.Knuth
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