From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ESDEd-0005v3-JB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:39:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9JCbsI5021686; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:37:54 GMT Received: from smtp7.libero.it (smtp7.libero.it [193.70.192.90]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9JCbsX5026540 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:37:54 GMT Received: from localhost (172.16.1.15) by smtp7.libero.it (7.0.027-DD01) id 431C36B40350136B for gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:40:15 +0200 Received: from smtp1.libero.it ([172.16.1.96]) by localhost (asav11.libero.it [193.70.192.93]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18012-02-6 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:40:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (adsl-ull-70-52.44-151.net24.it [151.44.52.70]) by smtp1.libero.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25FA0A8C7F for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:40:15 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <43563E6E.5030905@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:39:10 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051004) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] gcloop: bzip2? References: <200510190801.56883.luke-jr@utopios.org> <1129722437.3206.25.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org> In-Reply-To: <1129722437.3206.25.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned: with antispam and antivirus automated system at libero.it X-Archives-Salt: 5f3f0418-df39-455a-ba7f-49409a8b5caa X-Archives-Hash: 6b6b06e256123dc5ca2c52dcaff05263 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 -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list