[Gllug] Loopback mountable image file compression.

[Phillip Lougher]

Richard Jones wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 07:43:09PM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
>
> Actually Squashfs isn't completely irrelevant to this discussion.  You can
> put a filesystem image inside a SquashFS filesystem, it will be compressed
> by SquashFS, and the filesystem can be loopback mounted.
>
> In fact that's what the Fedora liveCD does, it has a SquashFS filesystem
> that contains exactly one file, an ext3 filesystem image.
>
>There's no benefit to putting a filesystem in a squashfs image for the
>original poster.
>
>The reason the Fedora liveCD does it is because cloop is not upstream,
>and they can't use a squashfs instead of ext3 because squashfs doesn't
>support extended attributes (read: SELinux).
>
>As I say, squashfs is irrelevant to this discussion.

That's your opinion, where's your evidence.  Without this, this is FUD.

I'm the author of Squashfs, and I think it is relevant.  I'm not
interested in a stupid, pathetic and public argument, but I don't like
people spreading FUD about my project.

Cheers

Phillip
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