ted leslie wrote: > big negative (unless fixed in recent releases) is you need enough ram/VM > to hold the entire > fs (to be compressed) in memory. So if you have 512MB ram and a 1GB VM > allocation, > the biggest fs you can archive using cloop/squashfs would be 2.5GB > (approx), that compresses down to > the 1GB to fit into your VM.
This isn't the case for Squashfs (and never has been). Prior to version 3.0, mksquashfs could create a 4GB compressed filesystem irrespective of the amount of free memory/VM in the host computer. In version 3.0, the 4 GB filesystem limit has been removed, and filesystem sizes are potentially unlimited. Phillip Lougher -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-can-I-use-for-a-compressed-file-system--t1604870.html#a4362494 Sent from the gentoo-user forum at Nabble.com. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
