On 2021-01-08 22:36, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss 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?
I found when I dd-ed the .usb image into my usb, it only fills a small
extent of
my storage space. How could I extend it to fit to all of my storage space?
Could I
make a partition from the unused space to store data?
Linux is too good at being a live system. The MX Live USB Creator handled
all of
this for me. I'm posting from a live MX Linux system. Nowadays, finding a
live
system not being a Linux distro is hard. So I really appreciate OpenIndiana.
zlib compression while a different compression algo, is effectively the same.
Perceived speed is subjective. Once read|decompressed, it's as fast as your
installed memory.
Using additional storage space on your storage medium is trivial. It is
enough
to enlarge the written partitions/slices on the medium after they have been
written.
I'm not sure where there would be too much gain doing that. As most of the
activity
is memory bound.
HTH
--Chris
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