Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753885AbZAJT5z (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:57:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752161AbZAJT5p (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:57:45 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:51504 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751684AbZAJT5o (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:57:44 -0500 Message-ID: <4968FDA7.5040008@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:57:27 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_En?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?gel?= , Ingo Molnar , David Brown , Phil Oester , Kay Sievers , Phillip Lougher , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29 References: <20090108165029.GA10951@infradead.org> <20090108175338.2abbee16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4966B24E.1050700@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20090109023629.GA29520@linuxace.com> <20090109165422.GF24884@logfs.org> <20090109193738.GA9827@linode.davidb.org> <20090109211937.GA14342@logfs.org> <20090110124335.GB30744@elte.hu> <20090110165033.GA23943@logfs.org> <20090110101235.7ca24c44.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1181 Lines: 35 Linus Torvalds wrote: > I think squashfs usage would be similar - you'd not have squashfs as a > standalone media, it would be a "installation medium" thing. Plenty of existing, active squashfs use on router firewall standalone media. Here is my home router running unmodified OpenWRT: root@gw:~# mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on /rom type squashfs (ro) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) /dev/mtdblock/4 on /jffs type jffs2 (rw) mini_fo:/jffs on / type mini_fo (rw) The squashfs area stores the vast majority of the system; log files and other writable updates to the router go into the smaller jffs2 filesystem. Symlinks stitch the whole mess together. It will be nice to finally get squashfs in the kernel, since it is actively used all over the place in embedded projects like OpenWRT. Regards, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/