All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Phillip Lougher <phillip.lougher@gmail.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [announce] Squashfs2.0-alpha released (compressed filesystem)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:28:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bffbecbb04052108284b36a193@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce the first version of Squashfs 2.0.  A lot of
changes to the Squashfs filesystem have been made under the bonnet
(hood), to improve compression. Squashfs 2.0 has added the concept of
fragment blocks and has increased the block size to 64K. This achieves
a 5 - 20% compression saving, and allows Squashfs to achieve better
compression than Cloop while retaining the I/O efficiency of a
compressed filesystem.  In addition, the maximum number of UIDs and
GIDs has been increased to 256. This allows Squashfs to better support
live CDs.

For a description of fragment blocks and the other changes, please go
to the project page http://squashfs.sourceforge.net.

Regards

Phil Lougher

             reply	other threads:[~2004-05-21 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-21 15:28 Phillip Lougher [this message]
2004-05-21 15:37 ` [announce] Squashfs2.0-alpha released (compressed filesystem) Pat LaVarre
2004-05-21 15:53   ` Phillip Lougher
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-21 13:29 Phillip Lougher

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=bffbecbb04052108284b36a193@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=phillip.lougher@gmail.com \
    --cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.