No compressed file system option in the installer
Bug #204187 reported by
John McCabe-Dansted
This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Having a compressed file system available in Ubiquity would be useful to Install onto small devices (say a 1-4GB Usb drive)
The jffs2 filesystem is in the Ubuntu kernel, but is missing from ubiquity (as of Mar 08 Daily LiveCD). Jffs would presumably be ideal for flash based devices.
Userspace support seems to be poor. and mtd-tools is in universe rather than main.
Other options exist, but seem less optimal.
compFUSEd is userspace. Might be OK. Probably not as good as JFFS2.
Reiserfs4 is not in the Ubuntu Kernel.
e2compr is very old and not in the kernel.
Changed in ubiquity: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Confirmed |
no longer affects: | debian-installer |
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Given that bug #106741 has now been fixed, but this one has not, I doesn't seem this bug is a duplicate anymore.
Given that Btrfs is already an option, I understand it is now trivial to add a "Btrfs (compressed)" option to the GUI.
Use cases:
Joe wants to install Ubuntu on an old Eeepc with only 4GB of SSD. Minimising the size of the install is vital
Alice finds that Ubuntu doesn't support her machine properly, and goes back to windows. However, she wants to keep a *small* Linux partition installed so she can help debug the bugs she reported in the Linux drivers.
Fred finds that given his combination of a slow SSD and a fast CPU, compression improves performance as well as space usage.