[CentOS] SquashFS: how good is it?

Wed Oct 13 09:15:39 UTC 2010
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: Boris Epstein <borepstein at 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