Quoth Shachar Shemesh:
> UnionFS is a method of mounting two directory structures under the same
[snip much material]
UnionFS, as such, is a very good idea - to a great degree born out of Plan
9.
It is especially useful in such cases as multiply-mounted nfs root - only
/etc/rw/ needs be held pe
Thank you!
I want to recommend anybody to read your response if he is interested in
this field.
But now you remain with your question, and I must admit that now that I
think about it, I can't find any reason why cloop is preferred over cramfs.
This is the problem with your questions:
You always rai
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Hope this helps,
Gilad
It does, but truthfully,
http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/SquashFsComparisons helps
even more.
It shows the numbers but does not tell the story :-)
Speaking of which, the bloke wh
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Hope this helps,
Gilad
It does, but truthfully,
http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/SquashFsComparisons helps even
more.
It shows the numbers but does not tell the story :-)
To summarize:
CramFS, and more particularly, SquashFS, have
Eli Marmor wrote:
FYI, cloop is being replaced by unionfs.
No, it is not. In much the same way that sofas are not being replaced by
car seats. They are two different things.
Cloop is a compression loopback block, which means that you can use it
to mount (read only) file systems, such that
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Hope this helps,
Gilad
It does, but truthfully,
http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/SquashFsComparisons helps even
more.
To summarize:
CramFS, and more particularly, SquashFS, have lower overheads in terms
of CPU usage, and are thus better for cases where perf
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Hi all,
I have a wonder I would like to raise, in the hope that someone has an
insight. Knoppix invented a special loopback device called "cloop". This
is a compressed loopback device, which means that you can connect an
standard file system (say, ISO-9660 cdrom), and i
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
Hi all,
I have a wonder I would like to raise, in the hope that someone has an
insight. Knoppix invented a special loopback device called "cloop". This
is a compressed loopback device, which means that you can connect an
standard file system (say, ISO-9660 cdrom), and it will be compressed
an
