From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2195A4A21 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:32:32 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1735605153; cv=none; b=AAVSH/bGDPKuq6NEHRm4SoOTacnWTQE+DAiguTjBQVQFkQPfkRVKi/7auVxwERw5nqU0FZQDhMiEsMoOi87lH3LUbrqTd1PfIwz5mMymuJWszDxD1xzIrpVrfuGkLhofcECxQHQJH+K9qLzNkpypzBeSc153JpM7bChmSYaxn9k= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1735605153; c=relaxed/simple; bh=3l2WaqQrVzg+z0LLyj3Q6VBbwt5nwZP7h6yOIcGvRtM=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:Message-Id; b=WLEm2lFboKYDCAv01g6mAlxTbFMNUhkVvRTkd30NC1qdlRUd5t4NUb49VrodM8JX9gWp3lErVuhVkoVNIbaFu7xu8KmR11vmF6XaTrIOq0ahXzWV6CkI+qlmr0Vrl+M67wrSTTs0bVwafw0cSblivUnwIg3CiSfrRLM1NwXvXG0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b=RnQTp5E2; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b="RnQTp5E2" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 85461C4CED0; Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:32:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1735605152; bh=3l2WaqQrVzg+z0LLyj3Q6VBbwt5nwZP7h6yOIcGvRtM=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:From; b=RnQTp5E2QEL8sIsGSTF2ONcPYyBP0wIYBNs8e2ErCzaUll6KP+0fWqxQRpchQK21w jLjjxluRbt3Wq0WwM4Np1D+Zvd40maTGybfu2jDG0t5T2Xm1wQ5ELjxShlgnf6rA5g rnFD30cjep4OUXrIXSnUjLZRFB87TJVsRBGA3lj0= Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:32:31 -0800 To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,phillip@squashfs.org.uk,akpm@linux-foundation.org From: Andrew Morton Subject: + documentation-update-the-squashfs-filesystem-documentation.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch Message-Id: <20241231003232.85461C4CED0@smtp.kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: The patch titled Subject: Documentation: update the Squashfs filesystem documentation has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is documentation-update-the-squashfs-filesystem-documentation.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/documentation-update-the-squashfs-filesystem-documentation.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Phillip Lougher Subject: Documentation: update the Squashfs filesystem documentation Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 23:37:51 +0000 This patch updates the following which are out of date. - Zstd has been added to the compression algorithms supported. - The filesystem mailing list (for the kernel code) is changed to linux-fsdevel rather than the now very little used Sourceforge mailing list. - The Squashfs website has been changed to the Squashfs-tools github repository. - The fact that Squashfs-tools is likely packaged by the linux distribution is mentioned. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241229233752.54481-4-phillip@squashfs.org.uk Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst~documentation-update-the-squashfs-filesystem-documentation +++ a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Squashfs 4.0 Filesystem Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. -It uses zlib, lz4, lzo, or xz compression to compress files, inodes and +It uses zlib, lz4, lzo, xz or zstd compression to compress files, inodes and directories. Inodes in the system are very small and all blocks are packed to minimise data overhead. Block sizes greater than 4K are supported up to a maximum of 1Mbytes (default block size 128K). @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ use (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file block device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is needed. -Mailing list: squashfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net -Web site: www.squashfs.org +Mailing list (kernel code): linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org +Web site: github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools 1. Filesystem Features ---------------------- @@ -58,11 +58,9 @@ inodes have different sizes). As squashfs is a read-only filesystem, the mksquashfs program must be used to create populated squashfs filesystems. This and other squashfs utilities -can be obtained from http://www.squashfs.org. Usage instructions can be -obtained from this site also. - -The squashfs-tools development tree is now located on kernel.org - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/squashfs/squashfs-tools.git +are very likely packaged by your linux distribution (called squashfs-tools). +The source code can be obtained from github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools. +Usage instructions can also be obtained from this site. 2.1 Mount options ----------------- _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from phillip@squashfs.org.uk are squashfs-make-squashfs_cache_init-return-err_ptr-enomem.patch squashfs-dont-allocate-read_page-cache-if-squashfs_file_direct-configured.patch documentation-update-the-squashfs-filesystem-documentation.patch squashfs-update-kconfig-information.patch