Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:39:04 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.org.uk>,
       =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.0 released
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Hi,

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:25:44PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I have two routers, ADM5120-based Edimax and LinkSys WRT54G v5, both of 
> which have a mere 2MB of flash, and both use SquashFS to maximize that 
> space.  And both are el cheapo, slow embedded processors that run far 
> slower than 300Mhz.  I look askance at anyone who wants to make an 
> arbitrary filesystem design decision imposing tons of bytesex upon these 
> lowly devices.

100% agreed. I love squashfs because it's tiny and efficient, and I
would not want to see it getting heavy.

BTW, has someone tried to port LZMA to squashfs ? I tried so on
bzImage + initramfs, and got something like a 27% smaller image.
That would mean about 500 kB on a 2 MB image.

> 	Jeff

Willy

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