Bootable system images

Bootable system images#

Android system partitions#

EROFS was originally developed for this use case in 2017. Nowadays, all mainstream Android vendors use EROFS for their system partitions, leveraging its high-performance compression to reduce image sizes without any noticeable impact on user experience.

Known adopters include (alphabetical, may be incomplete):

  • Coolpad

  • Honor

  • Huawei

  • Motorola

  • Samsung

  • OPPO

  • Xiaomi

  • vivo

For more details on Android system partition use cases, see:

Fedora LiveCDs#

Since Fedora 42, the EROFS filesystem has been used to compress Fedora LiveCDs to achieve smaller images with even better runtime performance.

Starting Fedora Workstation 43 Live ISO on x86_64 (at 1.8x speed)

For more details, see Switch to EROFS for Live Media.