Thomas Lecomte wrote: > On 10/30/07, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Thomas, >> what is SquashFS? Is there a project page for it somewhere? >> Where is your project page? What benefits does it provide? > Sorry, I forgot to give the project's website. Here it is: > http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/ > > SquashFS is, basically, a small read-only filesystem used for > archiving or in constrained block device/memory systems, making it > useful for tiny embedded machines. > > I'm not currently affiliated to the project. It is developed for Linux. > I've successfully ported the tools (used to create or modify a > SquashFS image) to Solaris, and I've submitted a patch to the > developer. > > Now, my goal would be to fully implement it in Solaris, as well as > making Solaris able to boot from it.
Hi Thomas, this sounds very, very interesting. Go for it! Please make sure that you keep storage-discuss in the loop with your progress, especially when you've got something that you'd like people to do testing on. best regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
