Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th Jun 2009 18:50 UTC, submitted by linuxmag
"Let's take a look at SquashFS. SquashFS is a read-only compressed file system that has a variable block size. The primary intent of the file system is for constrained block device/memory systems. The classic example targets SquashFS for embedded systems but there are other uses for it that fall outside of the embedded world, and could surprise you."
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For awhile there I was using SquashFS to save space on my EeePC 901 (compressing /usr), and it really seemed to contribute to the over all speed of my boot and I really regretted having to give it up due to some issues with suspending was interfering with the clean unmounting of the system, plus updates were constantly adding up and I wanted to go back to using as vanilla a system as I could. A bit later I found an old post in the Ubuntu Forums that listed various packages that most users would not need and removing most of those returned me to the large amounts of free space compressing /usr had given me, so I came out ahead in the end.
SquashFS is great when it works!
--bornagainpenguin