On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:30:23 PST, Linus Torvalds said: > I think squashfs usage would be similar - you'd not have squashfs as a > standalone media, it would be a "installation medium" thing. Actually, for some of us, squashfs would *usually* be a standalone - my biggest application for it is when I end up having to can-opener some wonky install medium that one of my users is having a problem with. And of course, I have to use some *other* kernel/system to do the can-opener trick with, because if the one on the medium worked, the user wouldn't be standing in my office :) Fortunately, that usually means I'm using a recent -mm kernel on my laptop, and the kernel/medium I'm trying to debug is almost always older, so I don't have to worry much about a too-new medium. Anybody comes in my office with something even more bleeding edge than what I have, I damn well expect them to be able to debug the issue themselves. ;)
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