[Buildroot] [PATCH] fs/squashfs: Allow to disable compression of the filesystem

[Buildroot] [PATCH] fs/squashfs: Allow to disable compression of the filesystem

[John Ernberg]

Devices with large amounts of flash but operating in connectivity-
constrained areas can benefit from using uncompressed images as this
allows delta updates using binary diff algorithms.

Connectivity-constrained areas in this context are defined as areas
where the connection is very slow, unstable, etcetera, where it is
difficult to transfer data in large scale.

Add a "none" option to the compression menu and map it to the mksquashfs
-no-compression flag to enable this feature.
Disable the ability to select extreme compression in this case as that
makes absolutely no sense combined with no compression.

Signed-off-by: John Ernberg <john.ernberg@actia.se>
---
 fs/squashfs/Config.in   | 6 ++++++
 fs/squashfs/squashfs.mk | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/squashfs/Config.in b/fs/squashfs/Config.in
index 21322a2246..4f898bfdd4 100644
--- a/fs/squashfs/Config.in
+++ b/fs/squashfs/Config.in
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ choice
 	  Select the squashfs compression algorithm to use when
 	  generating the filesystem.
 
+	  Select "none" to disable compression.
+
 config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_SQUASHFS4_GZIP
 	bool "gzip"
 
@@ -87,11 +89,15 @@ config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_SQUASHFS4_XZ
 config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_SQUASHFS4_ZSTD
 	bool "zstd"
 
+config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_SQUASHFS4_NONE
+	bool "none"
+
 endchoice
 
 config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_SQUASHFS_EXTREME_COMP
 	bool "extreme compression when available"
 	default y if BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_SQUASHFS4_LZ4  # legacy
+	depends on !BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_SQUASHFS4_NONE
 	help
 	  Use options to increase compression ration as much as
 	  possible, like using architecture-specific options, at
diff --git a/fs/squashfs/squashfs.mk b/fs/squashfs/squashfs.mk
index cf083663c1..3b9d0efbbe 100644
--- a/fs/squashfs/squashfs.mk
+++ b/fs/squashfs/squashfs.mk
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ else ifeq ($(BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_SQUASHFS4_XZ),y)
 ROOTFS_SQUASHFS_ARGS += -comp xz
 else ifeq ($(BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_SQUASHFS4_ZSTD),y)
 ROOTFS_SQUASHFS_ARGS += -comp zstd
+else ifeq ($(BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_SQUASHFS4_NONE),y)
+ROOTFS_SQUASHFS_ARGS += -no-compression
 else
 ROOTFS_SQUASHFS_ARGS += -comp gzip
 endif
-- 
2.47.1
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Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] fs/squashfs: Allow to disable compression of the filesystem

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot]

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:36:35 +0000
John Ernberg <john.ernberg@actia.se> wrote:

> Devices with large amounts of flash but operating in connectivity-
> constrained areas can benefit from using uncompressed images as this
> allows delta updates using binary diff algorithms.
> 
> Connectivity-constrained areas in this context are defined as areas
> where the connection is very slow, unstable, etcetera, where it is
> difficult to transfer data in large scale.
> 
> Add a "none" option to the compression menu and map it to the mksquashfs
> -no-compression flag to enable this feature.
> Disable the ability to select extreme compression in this case as that
> makes absolutely no sense combined with no compression.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Ernberg <john.ernberg@actia.se>
> ---
>  fs/squashfs/Config.in   | 6 ++++++
>  fs/squashfs/squashfs.mk | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

Thanks a lot for this patch, makes sense, so I've applied to our master
branch!

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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