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Author: Antony Stone
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Backup methods for Devuan
On Thursday 30 May 2024 at 14:14:00, Jakub Juszczakiewicz via Dng wrote:

> Hi,
>
>     I done just now small test:
> 1. create squashfs backup with Documents (3.5GiB -> 2.4GiB)
> 2. overwrite by random data (/dev/urandom) 1MiB inside squashfs image
> 3. compare all files from source directory and mounded image (fuse)
> Result?
> 1. One file are not accessible (I/O error during read). All rest ware
> OK.


Oh, that's good.

> squashfs have random (block) access. It's not like tar.gz and others
> tars with linear compression.


Aha - that's the magic difference I was missing. Thanks for the correction.


Antony.

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