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Subject: [Squashfs-devel] Pre-release of 3.0 in CVS
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:50:11 +0000
From: Phillip Lougher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Phillip Lougher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I have finally put the pre-release of Squashfs 3.0 into CVS. I'll
appreciate any feedback, but please remember this is pre-release
software :-)
This is the README which gives a bit more info.
Phillip
This is the initial import of Squashfs 3.0. This is a prerelease
of 3.0, and so backwards compatibility with older versions (1.x, 2.x)
is not supported, and mksquashfs will not append to filesystems.
The kernel code is for linux 2.6.x and should work on all recent
versions of the 2.6 kernel. The kernel files should be applied to
an existing Squashfs 2.2-r2 patched kernel, the files replace the
Squashfs files, keeping the necessary Squashfs patches in the other
kernel files.
Squashfs 3.0 is a major improvement to Squashfs. The following
improvements have been made.
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. 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).
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