James C. McPherson wrote: > 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. >
Yeah. Apart from lofi compression it will be very useful for LiveCDs if the root filesystem in ramdisk can be compressed. Regards, Moinak. > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
