[U-Boot-Users] Squashfs

[Tolunay Orkun]

Brian Johnson wrote:
> Just getting started with this stuff so I hope I don't ask too many newbie
> questions
> 
> I've read that squashfs is supposed to be an improvement over cramfs but I
> couldn't find any info about squashfs in the terrific U-Boot info at
> http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG
> 
> Is it basically the same setup as for a cramfs root?
> 
> How would it rank in the table shown at
> http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemSelection ?

We use UImage based on squashfs (gzip) in our UImage. U-Boot does not 
care what type of file system is in UImage formatted file. It only cares 
the file is a proper UImage. If you are looking at any U-Boot commands 
to deal with files inside the squashfs image U-Boot does not provide any 
such support.

Why don't you try generating cramfs and squashfs etc. based UImage files 
using your root file system contents and compare. Here is some date for 
you based on our PPC405PR based system which may or might not be 
representative.

RAM Memory After Boot:
fs_type available used free
ext2  30724 17636 13088
cramfs  30724 9700 21024
squashfs  30724 9800 20924

File System Size:
fs_type uncompessed gzip bzip2
ext2  11564032 3183668 2922595
cramfs  3805184 3783755 3736662
squashfs  3203072 3182423 3157283

Best regards,
Tolunay