Thanks for your clarification. But you didn't answer the second part of my question. Hope someone will address it.
I do have another question. Everyone of us knows that a read-only root file system is not enough for a live system. There always a need for some overlayfs/unionfs/aufs to have a writable root file system. So what is the technology used on OI? Thanks. ---- On Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:41:18 +0700 Peter Tribble <[email protected]> wrote ---- > 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 > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
