I just noticed that while squashfs 3.4 kernel module is used on the -default kernel, the squashfs tools on both PowerPC and x86 repos are stuck at 3.2 neko@frodo:~> mksquashfs -version mksquashfs version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Is there any particular reason for this? Is there an update planned? Also, more for the kernel guys.. is there any reason why the mkinitrd etc. stuff relies on cpio archives when the SUSE kernel is built with squashfs (granted as a module), all the rescue/install images are squashfs? It does not provide any remarkably better compression - in fact I tested 100k larger filesystem with mksquashfs 3.2 but then mksquashfs 3.2 refuses to use large block sizes so the compression is lower than it could be, also mksquashfs 3.4 supposes a 10% improvement and unsquashfs supposes a 40% improvement in speed in creation and extraction (we will ignore the kernel improvements as, they are in the kernel already).. .. But a few tests in performance usually always show that accessing a squashfs initrd mounted to RAM is faster than a cpio initrd in RAM. It also has a few extra little advantages here and there but I do not know if they are worth it, but I do know that managing squashfs filesystems is a billion times easier than pushing cpio archives around. Since squashfs is going to be in the kernel mainline at some point (it's in Linus' tree) and everyone and his dog makes squashfs initrds, are we going to see a move to it at some point and have the thing built in with more use of the format? -- Matt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org