On 01/27/14 08:35, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 21:00 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: >> Hi again. >> >> If someone is interested in the results of my tests and benchmarks, >> I've uploaded the initial version of my article on the topic in our >> dev-space. >> >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/tmp/squashfs-deltas.pdf >> >> I am terribly busy with the uni right now so it will take some time >> before I continue working on it. I will try to provide a final >> specification for the first attempt at the idea and ask infra if they >> are ready to sacrifice the hardware for it. >> >> Further possible improvements: >> >> 1. switch to LZ4 (stronger compression, even faster) -- will require >> a newer kernel (3.14?), >> it should be in kernel 3.11 "windows for workgroups" release (check anyway)
> While the stronger compression, and being faster is definitely nice, > having portage on squashfs is really nice on ARM devices, however the > number of them that have a decently running kernel newer than 3.8 are > few and far between, so I'd like to ask that this be held off as long as > possible. I know these are just possible improvements, but doing so > would definitely alienate a really good place where this would shine. yes, there are good reasons also for amd64 > >> 2. dedicated SquashFS delta tool -- I'm working on it but >> the format seems to be poorly documented so it will take some time :). >> > >
