Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:14:42 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>, greg@kroah.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS
Message-ID: <20050321101441.GA23456@elf.ucw.cz>
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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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