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On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 21:00 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hi again. |
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> If someone is interested in the results of my tests and benchmarks, |
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> I've uploaded the initial version of my article on the topic in our |
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> dev-space. |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/tmp/squashfs-deltas.pdf |
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> I am terribly busy with the uni right now so it will take some time |
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> before I continue working on it. I will try to provide a final |
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> specification for the first attempt at the idea and ask infra if they |
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> are ready to sacrifice the hardware for it. |
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> Further possible improvements: |
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> 1. switch to LZ4 (stronger compression, even faster) -- will require |
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> a newer kernel (3.14?), |
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While the stronger compression, and being faster is definitely nice, |
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having portage on squashfs is really nice on ARM devices, however the |
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number of them that have a decently running kernel newer than 3.8 are |
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few and far between, so I'd like to ask that this be held off as long as |
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possible. I know these are just possible improvements, but doing so |
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would definitely alienate a really good place where this would shine. |
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> 2. dedicated SquashFS delta tool -- I'm working on it but |
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> the format seems to be poorly documented so it will take some time :). |
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