Re: F42 Change Proposal: Switch to EROFS for Live Media (self-contained)

2025-01-18 Thread Phillip Lougher
Neal Gompa wrote: > As one of the upstream developers for the kiwi image build tool, I > have no intention of removing SquashFS support. It's perfectly fine > and usable. My only issue with it is that using unsquashfs to install > live environments causes the environment to freeze, which is not >

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Switch to EROFS for Live Media (self-contained)

2025-01-17 Thread Phillip Lougher
Gao Xiang wrote: > On 2025/1/17 17:40, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM Phillip Lougher > > phillip.loug...@gmail.com wrote: > > Neal Gompa wrote: > > Thank you, I appreciate whatever you can do to make things better for > > our use-cases. :)

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Switch to EROFS for Live Media (self-contained)

2025-01-16 Thread Phillip Lougher
Neal Gompa wrote: > > Thank you, I appreciate whatever you can do to make things better for > our use-cases. :) Well it is obvious where your bias lies. -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Switch to EROFS for Live Media (self-contained)

2025-01-16 Thread Phillip Lougher
Gao Xiang wrote: > > By doing this they deliberately reduce the compression and speed of > > Squashfs in their tests. This IMHO is biased and unethical. But that is > > how it is. > > Also if I were a random filesystem author, I will never argue just due to > > lack of development resource.

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Switch to EROFS for Live Media (self-contained)

2025-01-16 Thread Phillip Lougher
how it is. So far this proposal looks like something from the EROFS marketing department and is remarkably light in motivations and technical detail. Phillip --- Dr. Phillip Lougher (Squashfs author and maintainer) -- ___ devel mailing list -- de

Re: filesystems and year 2038

2022-04-06 Thread Phillip Lougher
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:48 AM Dusty Mabe > What about squashfs? We use that for the live media, is that affected? No, Squashfs uses unsigned 32-bit ints, which will roll over in 2106. Phillip --- Squashfs author and maintainer. ___ devel mailing l