Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.0 released

["Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>]

On Fri, 17 March 2006 00:45:42 +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> 
> Squashfs 3.0 has finally been released.  Squashfs 3.0 is a major  
> improvement to Squashfs, and it addresses most of the issues that  
> that have been raised, particularly the 4GB filesystem and file  
> limit.  It can be obtained from the usual address http:// 
> squashfs.sourceforge.net.  There is still some work to be done, in  
> particular NFS support which I'll add as soon as I get time.  After  
> this I'll consider resubmitting patches to the LKML.
> 
> From the changelog, the improvements are as follows:
> 
>         1. Filesystems are no longer limited to 4 GB.  In
>            theory 2^64 or 4 exabytes is now supported.
> 
>         2. Files are no longer limited to 4 GB.  In theory the maximum
>            file size is 4 exabytes.
> 
>         3. Metadata (inode table and directory tables) are no longer
>            restricted to 16 Mbytes.
> 
>         4. Hardlinks are now suppported.
> 
>         5. Nlink counts are now supported.
> 
>         6. Readdir now returns '.' and '..' entries.
> 
>         7. Special support for files larger than 256 MB has been  
> added to
>            the Squashfs kernel code for faster read access.
> 
>         8. Inode numbers are now stored within the inode rather than  
> being
>            computed from inode location on disk (this is not so much an
>            improvement, but a change forced by the previously listed
>            improvements).

Nice list of improvements.  The one still painfully missing is a
fixed-endianness disk format.  Would have been a good time to make an
incompatible change and decide on one or the other.

Jörn

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