On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 6:37 AM Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss < [email protected]> wrote:
> Most Linux distributions now employing SquashFS for their live system so > they are blazing fast even though being run from a slow USB 2.0 stick. I'm > posting this mail on one of such live system. I found OpenIndiana is using > another technology: > https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2012/10/those-strange-zlib-files.html > > Does this technology comparable to SquashFS? And if SquashFS is better, is > there any plan to switch to SquashFS? > The illumos distributions have alway used a compressed filesystem for the live image. There's no difference to squashfs in that respect - we're just normally compressing the whole image. There's no benefit to changing to a different scheme that's essentially identical. We do actually have a direct equivalent to squashfs already - dcfs. I've not seen it used much, although it was used on SPARC to compress the files in the boot archive. (On x86, the bootloader can read a compressed boot archive, so you don't need it there.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
