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Have they fixed the unearthly slowness of SquashFS? Is there a filesystem out there that is slower?
by hajile 6y ago
Have they fixed the unearthly slowness of SquashFS? Is there a filesystem out there that is slower?
- galgalesh 6y agoThe fault isn't SquashFS itself but the compression they use. They use an old compression algorithm by default to support older kernels. They are working on optionally enabling quicker compression on distros that support it though. See this for more info: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/squashfs-performance-effect-on-snap-startup-time/13920 https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/squashfs-performance-effect-on-...