Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2018, 11:11:21 CEST schrieb Gao Xiang: > > In which sense is it extendable? > > Actually, the meaning of an enhanced (means not just read-only, but with the scalable > on-disk layout, compression, or fs-verify in the future) read-only file system is emphasized. ah ok. > We also think of other candidate full names, such as > Enhanced / Extented Read-only File System, all the names short for "erofs" are okay. TBH, I read "erofs" as "error fs". ;-) > > How does it compare to existing read only filesystems, such as squashfs? > > > > You are quite right. > > We are now focusing on improving our decompression subsystem and > these numbers will be successively added in the future non-RFC patches. > > We haven't pay much attention on comparing squashfs and erofs > yet since we once tried to use squashfs on our products with > different block sizes several years ago, it behaves > unacceptable in the low free memory scenario besides its > performance. I'm interested in the comparison because I use squashfs often for embedded devices on top of ubiblock (raw nand). If there is something that can do better, I'm all for it. Thanks, //richard -- sigma star gmbh - Eduard-Bodem-Gasse 6 - 6020 Innsbruck - Austria ATU66964118 - FN 374287y
