[gentoo-releng] gcloop: bzip2?

[gentoo-releng] gcloop: bzip2?

[Luke-Jr]

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Is it possible to use gcloop with a bz2 compressed image? If not, is it likely 
to be supported in the future?

Thanks,
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Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
http://utopios.org/

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Re: [gentoo-releng] gcloop: bzip2?

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 08:01 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> Is it possible to use gcloop with a bz2 compressed image? If not, is it likely 
> to be supported in the future?

As far as I know, gcloop hasn't been actively maintained for a couple
years now.  I have actually removed support for it from the next version
of catalyst since squashfs provides better results.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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Re: [gentoo-releng] gcloop: bzip2?

[Luca Barbato]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 08:01 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> 
>>Is it possible to use gcloop with a bz2 compressed image? If not, is it likely 
>>to be supported in the future?
> 
> 
> As far as I know, gcloop hasn't been actively maintained for a couple
> years now.  I have actually removed support for it from the next version
> of catalyst since squashfs provides better results.
> 

gcloop was an interesting project started to solve the shortcomings 
present in the original cloop, but looks like nobody got quite 
interested after squashfs started working. The main problem with gcloop 
is the fact it requires in kernel decompressors. If someone is still 
interested in the concept probably could be possible use something in 
between fuse and dm but I don't have the time now.

lu

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Luca Barbato

Gentoo/linux Developer		Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

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