[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Modifying the original Fedora Live CD

[Alan Pevec]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 19:05 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Sean Godsell wrote:
>>> I don't know why fedora didn't
>>> take the time to use squashfs+lzma, but it is worth it.  I hope they put
>>> it in the next release.
>> Most likely because it doesn't appear to be included in the upstream kernel.  When/if it is, 
>> this is a no-brainer.
> 
> Or even included by the upstream squashfs maintainer[1]
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> [1] squashfs already isn't upstream.  layering more patches of
> non-upstreamed-ness on top is just going to make the lives of the kernel
> maintainers *more* painful.  

So the issue is how can we help squashfs first and then lzma get accepted upstream.
What's the history here, did it ever get submitted and then shoot down for valid reasons?