squashfs-tools
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tools to create and extract Squashfs filesystems
Changes the default behavior when unpacking a filesystem over pre-mounted directories. To return the default behavior, it is suggested to use the -one-file-system option, similar to mksquashfs.
I was recently working on a feature that uses `unsquashfs` (conversation [here](https://github.com/hpc/charliecloud/pull/1661)), and ran into some confusion over the `-force` option. The option is documented as overwriting existing files, but...
Newer versions of GNU tar has an option for dereferencing symlinks, --dereference https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/dereference.html I have a use case for this where a file resides in a directory without executable permission,...
Hi, I am using a patch to increase the block size because is having better compression. Is it possible to increase it in a future version? I forgot what was...
Hi, I'm having trouble finding concrete information on whether squashfs is designed to handle packing and unpacking large amounts of files with low/constant RAM usage. I ran `mksquashfs` on directory...
Currently mksquashfs seems to use a single reader thread. Many current devices only achieve optimal throughput when files are read from them in parallel: * current SSDs (which require a...
Hello, I was using mksquashfs 4.3 in an embedded environment (distro built using yocto) for a long time and I recently update to 4.4 (lz4 version 1.9.2) I noticed a...
This requires liblzma >= 5.6.0. The LZMA2 options are set with the assumption that the RISC-V C extension is in use. I have [submitted the RISC-V filter to Linux](https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/). It's...
