On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM <mkol...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 11:19 +0100, Simon de Vlieger wrote: > > Hi Neal (and Dusty), > > > > On 1/15/25 11:53 PM, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce wrote: > > > EROFS is considerably more actively developed than SquashFS, and > > > offers more modern file system features that can be utilized in the > > > future. > > > > Reading some through some of the thread it seems the main motivation > > is > > consolidation of tooling across the OCI, RHEL, and (through OCI) > > Flatpak > > landscape. Could you maybe add that little blurb to the change > > proposal > > wiki? > > > > > > Aside; I'm perhaps a bit conservative in this regard but it seems > > EROFS > > offers no direct benefit in the short term (reading some of this > > thread > > it actually seems to come with some drawbacks, which the > > maintainer(s) > > are trying to address in their spare time?). > > > > Could you expand on the benefits and possible future benefits that > > make > > the change necessary? > Yeah - I do wonder the benefits are really larger than the risks, given > the performance/efficiency issues & unclear timeline for those issues > to be resolved. > > Do we really need to rush this now instead of waiting for the issues to > be resolved first & then switching to an objectively better FS ? > > Otherwise there is the risk a non trivial amount of time will be spent > integration the new solution & there is a chance we will end up with a > sub-par system in the end. >
That doesn't really seem to be the case. I just got tagged on a patch yesterday that further improved compression. https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linux-erofs/2025-January/012699.html And there's a lot more coming down the pipe *now*: https://github.com/erofs/erofs-utils/commits/experimental/ -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
