2 Feb
2013
2 Feb
'13
12:12 p.m.
On 2/02/2013 10:57 AM, Trent W. Buck wrote:
I've mostly been using mksquashfs instead of tar for the last few years, because it preserves more metadata by default, offers better compression, and the result can be treated either as an archive (unsquashfs) or a filesystem (mount). On pre-squashfs systems, it builds out of git and runs fine without installation, only needs zlib1g-dev and optionally xz-dev.
What do you lose with tar when ran as root that you don't lose with mksquashfs ? Using mksquashfs looks like a handy way to archive data and to be able to quickly mount it as a file system for view only requirements. Thanks A.