On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 01:18:29 +0200, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > I hope to occasionally push back a little against this. When LZMA squashfs > > makes it upstream (it looks like it won't happen in time for F14) we will > > probably gain about 10% on what we can fit in a given size image. > > It's quite sad that we're waiting for upstream there. The feature exists, we > could ship it, yet we prefer crippling our live images by dropping more and > more applications to meet the size constraints with obsolete compression > technology. What happened to the leading-edge Fedora? We'll until Lougher writes something that Linus will accept, we need to wait. I think someone paid him to work on xattr, so it makes sense that he would give that higher priority. > > Another change that could happen is droppong the embedded ext3 image and > > use squashfs directly. (Selinux should now be usable on squashsfs file > > systems.) That might gain us a bit more space. > > Won't that break liveinst? I am not sure. I haven't looked into it too deeply yet. I have enough stuff to do that I probably won't get to it real soon. I would guess there would be some way to make it work, but it might be a little different than what happens now. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
