Re: squashfs compressed file system update?

2003-02-19 Thread Phillip Lougher
the best tool for the job. I wrote squashfs to be better than cramfs, because otherwise there's was little point in writing and releasing it. As for its use for booting, I don't want you to mistake this for an advert for squashfs. A couple of questions regarding squashfs's r

Re: squashfs compressed file system update?

2003-02-20 Thread Phillip Lougher
e file data is likely to be written likewise. Of course for cramfs and squashfs this is not much of an issue because they're already compressed. The order of files would make no difference if files are compressed independently like squashfs does. You're right. Phillip Lougher: I&#

Re: squashfs compressed file system update?

2003-02-23 Thread Phillip Lougher
Glenn McGrath wrote: The comparisons to cramfs does favour squashfs for lowmem installs. My only reservation is the fact that its not in the official kernel, but it sounds like you intend to stick it out and maintain it outside the offical tree, so that shouldnt be too much of a problem. Yes. I

Bug#183597: fails to mkswap

2003-03-06 Thread Phillip Lougher
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:22:29PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:58:09PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > /sbin/mkswap is available in the busybox-cvs-udeb package. Should it > > be available in the busybox-udeb package as well? > > The network install image runs out