June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
13h 14m
English
Compressing data is useful if you don't have quite enough storage to fit everything in. Both JFFS2 and UBIFS do on-the-fly data compression by default. However, if the files are never going to be written, as is usually the case with the root filesystem, you can achieve better compression ratios by using a read-only compressed filesystem. Linux supports several of these: romfs, cramfs, and squashfs. The first two are obsolete now, so I will describe only squashfs.
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