Hello listmates,
Have any of you used SquashFS?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS
We have tried it on small file sets, seems good but if you have experience using it, especially to store/archive lage volumes of files, please share your experience.
Thanks.
Boris.
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:37 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
Have any of you used SquashFS?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS
We have tried it on small file sets, seems good but if you have experience using it, especially to store/archive lage volumes of files, please share your experience.
Thanks.
--- It is used in the making of Live CDs as in Linux. CentOS Live CD 5 uses it
John
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:44 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:37 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
Have any of you used SquashFS?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS
We have tried it on small file sets, seems good but if you have experience using it, especially to store/archive lage volumes of files, please share your experience.
Thanks.
It is used in the making of Live CDs as in Linux. CentOS Live CD 5 uses it
John
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
John,
Thanks, I know that. But live CD (under 1GB) is one thing; a large data set (say, 4TB) could be something else. I'd like to know, among other things, if SquashFS could be practically used to create an archive of that size (and compress it as it goes, too).
Boris.
From: Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com
Thanks, I know that. But live CD (under 1GB) is one thing; a large data set (say, 4TB) could be something else. I'd like to know, among other things, if SquashFS could be practically used to create an archive of that size (and compress it as it goes, too).
From wikipedia:
Max file size 16 EiB Max volume size 16 EiB
JD
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:15 AM, John Doe jdmls@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com
Thanks, I know that. But live CD (under 1GB) is one thing; a large data set (say, 4TB) could be something else. I'd like to know, among other things, if SquashFS could be practically used to create an archive of that size (and compress it as it goes, too).
From wikipedia:
Max file size 16 EiB Max volume size 16 EiB
JD
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
JD,
Thanks, I've seen this too. It is just a matter of practical testing - and I am doing the testing right now. If it turns out that creating a storage that size after SquashFS is exceedingly slow - or requires an inadequate amount of resources - then we may abandon this idea for something different.
Boris.
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:44 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:37 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
Have any of you used SquashFS?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS
We have tried it on small file sets, seems good but if you have experience using it, especially to store/archive lage volumes of files, please share your experience.
Thanks.
It is used in the making of Live CDs as in Linux. CentOS Live CD 5 uses
I was unable to mount it read/write, if that matters. Error said it could only be mounted read-only.
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Chad Woolley thewoolleyman@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:44 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:37 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
Have any of you used SquashFS?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS
We have tried it on small file sets, seems good but if you have experience using it, especially to store/archive lage volumes of files, please share your experience.
Thanks.
It is used in the making of Live CDs as in Linux. CentOS Live CD 5 uses
I was unable to mount it read/write, if that matters. Error said it could only be mounted read-only. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Yes, SquassFS is a read-only FS. Which is fine for us as we intend to only use it for archiving purposes.
Boris.
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 15:28 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Chad Woolley thewoolleyman@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:44 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:37 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
Have any of you used SquashFS?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS
We have tried it on small file sets, seems good but if you have experience using it, especially to store/archive lage volumes of files, please share your experience.
Thanks.
It is used in the making of Live CDs as in Linux. CentOS Live CD 5 uses
I was unable to mount it read/write, if that matters. Error said it could only be mounted read-only. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Yes, SquassFS is a read-only FS. Which is fine for us as we intend to only use it for archiving purposes.
Boris.
I think you had better look else where for 4 tera bytes
John
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:45 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 15:28 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Chad Woolley thewoolleyman@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:44 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:37 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
Have any of you used SquashFS?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS
We have tried it on small file sets, seems good but if you have experience using it, especially to store/archive lage volumes of files, please share your experience.
Thanks.
It is used in the making of Live CDs as in Linux. CentOS Live CD 5 uses
I was unable to mount it read/write, if that matters. Error said it could only be mounted read-only. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Yes, SquassFS is a read-only FS. Which is fine for us as we intend to only use it for archiving purposes.
Boris.
I think you had better look else where for 4 tera bytes
John
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
John,
You may well be right. As a test I decided to try on about 1.3TB and see what happens. The mksquashfs command has been running for about an hour, ate up about 2GB of RAM plus some swap; so far so good.
Boris.
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