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ted leslie wrote: |
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> big negative (unless fixed in recent releases) is you need enough ram/VM |
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> to hold the entire |
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> fs (to be compressed) in memory. So if you have 512MB ram and a 1GB VM |
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> allocation, |
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> the biggest fs you can archive using cloop/squashfs would be 2.5GB |
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> (approx), that compresses down to |
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> the 1GB to fit into your VM. |
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This isn't the case for Squashfs (and never has been). Prior to version |
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3.0, mksquashfs could create a 4GB compressed filesystem irrespective of the |
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amount of free memory/VM in the host computer. In version 3.0, the 4 GB |
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filesystem limit has been removed, and filesystem sizes are potentially |
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unlimited. |
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Phillip Lougher |
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