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Fedora 42 Is Looking At Switching To EROFS For Its Live Media


A change proposal filed today for the in-development Fedora 42 is looking at making use of the EROFS file-system for all of the live media images.

A change proposal filed today for the in-development Fedora 42 is looking at making use of the EROFS file-system for all of the live media images. The Fedora 42 change proposal argues that EROFS is more actively developed than SquashFS and supports more modern file-system features that can in turn be utilized in the future. EROFS has gained a lot of features and optimizations over the years since its original upstreaming by Huawei back in 2019.

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