[Sugar-devel] Good filesystem for USB flash with compression?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 08:55:09PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
>I noticed a problem when attempting to unsquash the SoaS filesystem and 
>extract it on to a flashdrive: it's over 1.2GiB.
>
>Since squashfs is read-only, is there a good read-write filesystem that 
>achieves decent compression (while not carrying too steep a speed 
>penalty on older systems) that is reasonable to use on a USB flash 
>drive?
>
>JFFS2 won't work, from what I've heard. Are there any other 
>well-developed alternatives?

FUSE2-based: http://miio.net/wordpress/projects/fusecompress/

For the underlying fs I believe the best (i.e. reliable + fast + 
non-wearing) is ext4 with journaling disabled.


  - Jonas

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