Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Martin Guy <martinwguy@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] compiling on openmoko
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:49:30
Message-Id: 56d259a00904231449x61b05043ha48f3d221351c2dd@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] compiling on openmoko by wireless
1 On 4/23/09, wireless <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Maybe others have experience with squashfs?
3
4 In my 2002 analysis of the performance of compressed read-only
5 filesystems (for the purpose of Linux live CDs) squashfs won hands
6 down for both compression ratio and RAM/VM usage.
7 Mind you, that was in an I/O-bound, RAM-limited environment whereas in
8 this context the CPU needed for on-the-fly decompression may be
9 prohibitive.
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