FYI, cloop is being replaced by unionfs. You will not find unionfs in stable distros yet, because it is VERY buggy.
But the fact that although it is so buggy, which is an impossible thing in the case of FS, it is preferred over cloop for several betas and pre releases, is very impressive, and may shed a light on what is going to happen when it will be more solid. I can even tell about my own experience with bugs of unionfs (for example the "famous" bug of readdir() that under specific circumstances blocks directories in a way that any process which tries to access them enters into a frozen and non-killable status). Although I use unionfs, I've never checked how it compresses its data. So I suggest to go on with this thread in the following way: check whether unionfs uses cloop's way, or cramfs' way; If the former is correct, then the discussion is not so relevant anymore; And if the latter is correct, then the thread should be renamed to "unionfs vs. compressed filesystems". Somebody of course may argue that unionfs is not going to replace cloop; I think it will be interesting (at least personally for me) to hear his/her arguments and reasons, because this is a very important decision that many distros (especially live CDs) are taking these days. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-5237338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
