SquashFS?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:18 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:35 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 13:20 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > Darko Ilic wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I wanted to ask what are the opinions on the subject, and is there any chance 
> > > > for SquashFS to make it's way into Fedora kernel by FC5? I`ve heard it was 
> > > > submitted to LKML recently and there was some discussions surrounding that 
> > > > and that it is a likely candidate for the upstream kernel.
> > > 
> > > If it makes it upstream, then most likely, yes.
> 
> > I'd like to see a quality Fedora LiveCD.  At my day job we're evaluating
> > livecds for kiosks, recovery, and lab installs.  What has struck me in
> > recent days is that they're _all_ Debian based.  If we want this to
> > change, we need to create liveCDs that 
> 
> > squashfs and unionfs are both kernel modules that are pretty standard
> > fare in the liveCD world but are not part of the mainline kernel.  We
> > need to include them in Fedora in order to advance our reputation in the
> > liveCD arena.
> 
> 	I spoke with Andrew Morton about unionfs when we were both at Linux
> Lunacy V.  He stated that nobody had approached him or Linus about
> unionfs and they had not heard a peep about it.  But, if someone wants
> to submit patches and follow up on it, they are more than willing to
> look it over and consider it.
> 
> 	So, as far as unionfs goes, it's up to the developers to approach the
> kernel people about inclusion in the upstream sources.  So someone needs
> to push the unionfs developers.

	The issue has now been broached with the developers on the unionfs
mailing lists in the context of a major bug fix (hint - upgrade to
1.1.11 if you have large file systems!).  I intend on pursuing this
further...

	More to come, I assure you...

	Regards,
	Mike
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