Knoppix Filesystem?

[rixter]

(My first post!)

Hi,

I'm a fair newbie to Knoppix and, shamefullly, to Linux in general. However I'm working on that!

A group of us have been asked to write a presentation about Knoppix for university, and I have been left in charge of the File System section.

I'm struggling with this, as I know of course that Linux/Unix uses very different file systems to DOS/Windows, and I can easily research this. But I'm finding it hard to understand whether Knoppix can actually be considered to have a set filesystem as it is a Live CD? Is it not all about compatability with other systems?

I was wondering if anyone could help guide me in the right direction. I dont want you to write my presentation for me (of course!), but if you could recommend any particular sources of info, or a nudge towards how to go about this I would really appreciate it.

Anyway, thanks in advance!

[kirol]

Perhaps you should distinguish between the filesystem types knoppix supports (same as linux in general: ext2, ext3, reiser, xfs, vfat, ntfs, ntfs-3g...) and the compressed one it uses to cram so much software on a cdrom (google for cloop).

[rixter]

Thanks very much for the reply, I've looked into cloop and will definately be including that.

I have been reading about UnionFS also, which I believe is the way Knoppix combines the read only CD with the persistent settings? Would you agree this is an important inclusion for what I'm writing about?

[kirol]

Sure, unionfs was an important addition, that I only overlooked because I have been using knoppix even before its inclusion ;-)