Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #15803, comment 3


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Mar 14, 2020, 6:42:51 PM (5 years ago)
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  • Ticket #15803, comment 3

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    22> packagefs images are block-compressed and indexed so they are optimized for fast random access, which makes them very computationally expensive to create and not as efficient for data storage as standard archives.
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    4 Compression can be disabled if this is an issue.
     4Compression can be disabled if this is an issue. Something like hpkg.xz can be used if size is important and mounting is not needed.
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    66> You can already mount BFS image files as partitions, and then compress these with any archive tool (and of course you can modify them, too) making them much more suitable for this purpose.