Re: [Announce] Squashfs 2.1 released (compressed filesystem)

[Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>]

Hi Phillip,

> Many smaller improvements have also been made in this release, and there 
> are, for the first time, the results of some tests of Squashfs lookup 
> and I/O performance against Zisofs, Cloop, and CRAMFS.

I've checked you tests, numbers are appealing :-)

BTW, you need to apply the following patch to build mksquashfs with gcc < 3.

Thanks for still improving this great FS !
Willy

--- squashfs2.1/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c.orig	Sun Dec 12 12:10:35 2004
+++ squashfs2.1/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c	Sun Dec 12 12:14:55 2004
@@ -526,11 +526,10 @@
 	else if(type == SQUASHFS_LDIR_TYPE) {
 		int i;
 		unsigned char *p;
+		squashfs_ldir_inode_header *dir = &inode_header.ldir, *inodep;
 
 		if(byte_size >= 1 << 27)
 			BAD_ERROR("directory greater than 2^27-1 bytes!\n");
-
-		squashfs_ldir_inode_header *dir = &inode_header.ldir, *inodep;
 
 		inode = get_inode(sizeof(*dir) + i_size);
 		inodep = (squashfs_ldir_inode_header *) inode;