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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: Alexandre Oliva <lxoliva@fsfla.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ISO image: to xz or not to xz?
Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 19:41:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dkf4sw5.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <oreeenix2x.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org>

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Alexandre Oliva 写道:
> Consider using something like a loopback-mounted squashfs for 
> the bulk
> of the data in the install media for a future release.

Read <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40514>.

I did play with the obvious alternative, but got so bored -- 
squashfs is no forgotten 1990s Linux-only extension to iso9660! -- 
that saving a mere 20% more was not worth it.

By this I hope to trick you into thinking it is, and submitting a 
patch, because to do so you'd have to fix one of the Forever Bugs 
that *is* worth fixing: separate /boot support.  :-)

Kind regards,

T G-R

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-03 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-28 20:18 ISO image: to xz or not to xz? Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-28 20:39 ` Vincent Legoll
2021-04-28 20:41 ` Simon Josefsson via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2021-05-02 21:16   ` [PATCH] maint: Do not xz-compress ISO images Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-03  0:15     ` [bug#48173] " Julien Lepiller
2021-05-03  7:50       ` François
2021-05-03 15:39       ` bug#48173: " Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-03 16:35         ` Julien Lepiller
2021-05-04  3:35           ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-05-03 15:54       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-28 21:16 ` ISO image: to xz or not to xz? Christopher Baines
2021-04-28 21:18 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-03 16:47 ` Alexandre Oliva
2021-05-03 17:07   ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-03 17:30     ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-05-03 19:12       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-05-03 19:57         ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-05-03 17:41   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]

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