linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29

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Message-ID: <4966925C.2040702@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:55:08 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Phillip Lougher <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>
>> Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem. It compresses metadata
>> and data, and uses up to 1 MiB block sizes for greater compression.
> 
> That seems pretty fast for something only posted this week and not
> even in -next.
> 

It is in -next, but, to be fair, it has trivial impact on the rest of
the system, which should also be considered.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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