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Re:Knoppix 8.5.0 Released by hawski on Saturday March 16, 2019 @02:38PM (#19409393)
What advantages does cloop have over squashfs? Quick search revealed only that cloop is slower and has a bit worse compression than squashfs [0].

[0] https://elinux.org/Squash_Fs_Comparisons

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Re:Knoppix 8.5.0 Released by proctor on Saturday March 16, 2019 @02:47PM (#19409437)
the difference that i find valuable is that cloop is not a file system, whereas squashfs is. this means that i can use cloop to compress _any_ file system at the block level. very useful as a sys-admin.
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