similar to: squashfs in the hundreds of GB range

Hello listmates, Have any of you used SquashFS? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS We have tried it on small file sets, seems good but if you have experience using it, especially to store/archive lage volumes of files, please share your experience. Thanks. Boris.

Implement the "squash" output format, i.e. a squashfs compressed filesystem. This was implemented in diskimage-builder upstream as commit 9d13084c4183b63587e1f5e4b03395a8df6538f6. --- dib/Makefile.am | 1 + dib/output_format_squashfs.ml | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ dib/utils.ml | 1 + dib/virt-dib.pod | 6 ++++++ 4 files

Introduce a new API to create a new squashfs filesystem out of a path in the guest. It can be configured to exclude paths based on patterns, and to select which compression use for the filesystem. The advantage of running mksquashfs directly in the appliance is that ownerships are properly saved, as opposed to tar_out + local untar. --- appliance/packagelist.in | 2 + daemon/Makefile.am

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:12:10AM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > Introduce a new API to create a new squashfs filesystem out of a path > in the guest. It can be configured to exclude paths based on patterns, > and to select which compression use for the filesystem. > > The advantage of running mksquashfs directly in the appliance is that > ownerships are properly saved, as

On Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:33:57 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:12:10AM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > > Introduce a new API to create a new squashfs filesystem out of a path > > in the guest. It can be configured to exclude paths based on patterns, > > and to select which compression use for the filesystem. > > > > The advantage of

Hello listmates, I am wondering if there is a set of scripts/utilities for automatically starting and running headless (no X11) VM's using VirtualBox omn a CentOS 6 server. VNC/RDP access to the VM's would be fine. Any help much appreciated. Cheers, Boris.

On Thursday, 6 April 2017 00:26:26 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > >From josv on IRC: > > > Hi! I am on Fedora 25 and installed libguestfs (1.36.2) from the > > fedora repo. It seems that the squashfs feature is missing in this > > installation (guestfish add-drive /dev/null : run : available squashfs > > returns "error: squashfs: group not

>From josv on IRC: > Hi! I am on Fedora 25 and installed libguestfs (1.36.2) from the > fedora repo. It seems that the squashfs feature is missing in this > installation (guestfish add-drive /dev/null : run : available squashfs > returns "error: squashfs: group not available"). What would be the > recommended way to have the squashfs feature available? $ guestfish -a

Hello listmates, I can't find the 32 bit version of Centos 7. Would it be because I am not looking in the right place or does it not exist at all? Thanks. Boris.

2014-07-16 1:12 GMT+04:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>: > I believe I investigates making a squashfs from within libguestfs, and > although it's possible, it is not possible to stream the output > (unlike, say, guestfs_tar_out or guestfs_cpio_out). This means that > the maximum size of the squashfs would be quite small. > > Nevertheless we could add an API to

Hello listmates, So, what's the story with CentOS 6? It is supposed to be out by now, or coming out soon, or so I heard - but yet there seems to be no mention of it at http://centos.org/ . Does anybody know what's up with that? Thanks. Boris.

Hello listmates, I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to anything but NIS thus far. See here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/ http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for authentication? Thanks.

Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Plant, Dean wrote: >> I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and >> networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes >> the installer prompt for disk settings but not for network settings, >> they default to DHCP. Any idea's how to fix this? > > I'm

This is the second generation of the edit-livecd tool that replaces our original bash script with a python version and aims to reuse as much as the livecd-creator libraries as possible. The main reason for the new creator class is to avoid the need for a kisckstart file in order to edit an existing livecd image. edit-livecd is useful for people who don't have the development and yum

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Ian Bannerman <ian at internals.io> wrote: > Question, > > Some Linux distributions I support show two approaches for pxe booting them. One uses memdisk to boot an ISO file. The other uses pxelinux to boot kernel and initrd a squashfs file. > I'm unfamiliar with the impact to memory either approach has. Like, does using memdisk permanently

The tests currently break on my Debian machine. The reason is that the squashfs that we use to store test data has an incompatible format with the kernel used in the appliance. Anyway, avoid using a squashfs at all, and use an ISO instead. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now

Hello. I'm trying to add option to grub menu (amongst other options) to boot from squashfs image. But 'root=live:/path/tofile' doesn't work. I didn't find anything useful on the internet. Anybody can point me in right direction? Maybe better choice is to replace grub with isolinux? I have working solution with iso with squashfs booting through PXE, but i don't know how to

For every user at domain.tld I created a user at backup.domain.tld where he could look up deleted messages (archive). I then made user at backup.domain.tld's cur directory a shared directory to user at domain.tld but only with read privileges. So, anytime the user wants to read his old messages, he only needs to read his .archive folder, which is user at backup.domain.tld's cur. No

Question, Some Linux distributions I support show two approaches for pxe booting them. One uses memdisk to boot an ISO file. The other uses pxelinux to boot kernel and initrd a squashfs file. I'm unfamiliar with the impact to memory either approach has. Like, does using memdisk permanently squirrel away a chunk of memory for the ISO file that the OS will be unable to use? Is using initrd to

Hello listmates, I have two seemingly identical (in this reglard, at least) machine - both of them are running CentOS 6.2 with bind (bind-chroot) installed. I used webmin to edit the DNS configuration. One one of them it seems to work fine, on the other I get messages akin to the following: Failed to create master zone : Failed to replace /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf with